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ONLINE

1st ed.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011

1 online resource (x, 237 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780823241514 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0823234797 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0823234800 (pbk.)

ISBN 9780823234790 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780823234806 (pbk.)

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)948378086