Apocalyptic futures
Subtitle: marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
By: Russell Samolsky
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780823234790; 9780823234806
Subjects: Violence in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Ethics in literature; Fiction; Prophecy in literature; Mimesis in literature; Apocalyptic literature
Other titles: Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee; Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: writing violence  : marked bodies and retroactive signs; title: Metaleptic machines : Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah; title: Kafka and Shoah; title: Kafka and Kabbalah; title: Inscriptional machines; title: Apocalyptic futures : Heart of darkness, embodiment, and African genocide; title: Heart of darkness and African genocide; title: The genealogy of apocalypse; title: Delayed decodings; title: Marlow and messianism; title: The body in ruins : torture, allegory, and materiality in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians; title: The politics of the eternal present; title: Torture and allegory; title: The body in ruins; title: The materiality of the letter; title: Mourning the bones; title: Coda : the time of inscription: Maus and the apocalypse of number.