Apocalyptic futures [electronic resource] : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee / Russell Samolsky.
Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 237 p. : illISBN:- 9780823234790 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823234797 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780823234806 (pbk.)
- 0823234800 (pbk.)
- 9780823241514 (e-book)
- Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- 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
- 809.3/04 23
- PN3347 .S26 2011eb
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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.
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