Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee /
Samolsky, Russell.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2011.
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.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
Spiegelman, Art
Fiction
Ethics in literature.
Apocalyptic literature.
Prophecy in literature.
Violence in literature.
Mimesis in literature.