TY - BOOK AU - Samolsky,Russell TI - Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee SN - 9780823234806 U1 - 809.304 PY - 2011///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Apocalyptic literature KW - Ethics in literature KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Prophecy in literature KW - Violence in literature KW - African Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - Postcolonial Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; contents --; figures --; acknowledgments --; introduction. Writing Violence --; chapter one. Metaleptic Machines --; chapter two. Apocalyptic Futures --; chapter three. The Body in Ruins --; coda. The Time of Inscription --; notes --; index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823241514?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823241514 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823241514/original ER -