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Apocalyptic futures

by Samolsky, Russell.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Fordham University Press, (New York :) Physical details: x, 237 p. : ill.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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