Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
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- Apocalyptic futures : marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Title remainder
- marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Statement of responsibility
- Russell Samolsky
- Title variation
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- Marked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
- Subject
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- Apocalyptic literature
- Coetzee, J. M, 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Electronic books
- Ethics in literature
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Mimesis in literature
- Prophecy in literature
- Spiegelman, Art -- Criticism and interpretation
- Violence in literature
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions. Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment. Deploying the double register of "marks" to show how a text both codes and targets mutilated bodies, the author focuses on how these bodies are incorporated into texts by Kafka, Conrad, Coetzee, and Spiegelman. Situating "In the Penal Colony" in relation to the Holocaust, Heart of Darkness to the Rwandan genocide, and Waiting for the Barbarians to the revelations of torture in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Iraq, the author argues for the ethical and political importance of reading these literary works' "apocalyptic futures" in our own urgent and perilous situations. The book concludes with a reading of Spiegelman's Maus that offers a messianic counter-time to the law of apocalyptic incorporation
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Dewey number
- 809.3/04
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Target audience
- adult
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