LEADER 04571nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910778942903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-3481-9 010 $a0-8232-4124-6 010 $a1-283-58022-5 010 $a9786613892676 010 $a0-8232-4151-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823241514 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087170 035 $a(EBL)976995 035 $a(OCoLC)801363595 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000598559 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11384975 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598559 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10592009 035 $a(PQKB)11420670 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084868 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239594 035 $a(DE-B1597)555082 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823241514 035 $a(OCoLC)785778996 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC976995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239594 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10530643 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389267 035 $a(OCoLC)948378086 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL976995 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087170 100 $a20110822d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApocalyptic futures$b[electronic resource] $emarked bodies and the violence of the text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee /$fRussell Samolsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aModern Language Initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 300 $a"This book is made possible by a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"-- title-page verso. 311 $a0-8232-3480-0 311 $a0-8232-3479-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions.Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment. Deploying the double register of ?marks? to show how a text both codes and targets mutilated bodies, the author focuses on how these bodies are incorporated into texts by Kafka, Conrad, Coetzee, and Spiegelman.Situating ?In the Penal Colony? in relation to the Holocaust, Heart of Darkness to the Rwandan genocide, and Waiting for the Barbarians to the revelations of torture in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Iraq, the author argues for the ethical and political importance of reading these literary works? ?apocalyptic futures? in our own urgent and perilous situations. The book concludes with a reading of Spiegelman's Maus that offers a messianic counter-time to the law of apocalyptic incorporation. 410 0$aModern Language Initiative 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aApocalyptic literature 606 $aProphecy in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aMimesis in literature 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aApocalyptic literature. 615 0$aProphecy in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 676 $a809.3/04 700 $aSamolsky$b Russell$01574617 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778942903321 996 $aApocalyptic futures$93850991 997 $aUNINA