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Title: Apocalyptic futures marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee / Russell Samolsky. Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Main Entry: Samolsky, Russell.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Fordham University Press,
Publication Date: 2011.
Publication Place: New York :
ISBN: 9780823234790 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823234797 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823234806 (pbk.)
0823234800 (pbk.)
9780823241514 (e-book)
Subject: Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Apocalyptic literature.
Prophecy in literature.
Violence in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Electronic books.
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.
Edition: 1st ed.
Contents: 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.
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