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Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
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- Creator
- Russell Samolsky
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0823241513, 9780823241248, 9780823234790, 0823234800, 0823241246, 9780823241514, 9780823234806, 9786613892676, 1283580225, 0823234819, 0823234797, 9780823234813
- OCLC
- ocn785778996, ocn694832836, ocn801363595, ocn948378086
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: writing violence : marked bodies and retroactive signs -- Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah -- Kafka and Shoah -- Kafka and Kabbalah -- Inscriptional machines -- Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide -- Heart of darkness and African genocide -- The genealogy of apocalypse -- Delayed decodings -- Marlow and messianism -- The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians -- The politics of the eternal present -- Torture and allegory -- The body in ruins -- The materiality of the letter -- Mourning the bones -- Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number
Subjects
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Spiegelman, Art -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Ethics in literature.
- Apocalyptic literature.
- Prophecy in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Mimesis in literature.