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035 _a(DE-B1597)574150
035 _a(OCoLC)1280943254
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082 0 4 _a801.950904
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBiti, Vladimir
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPost-imperial Literature :
_bTranslatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee /
_cVladimir Biti.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (VIII, 268 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aCulture & Conflict ,
_x2194-7104 ;
_v20
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I: Post-imperial Europe: The Revenge of Peripheries --
_t1. Post-imperial Europe: The Return of the Indistinct --
_t2. Translating the Untranslatable: Walter Benjamin and Homi Bhabha --
_t3. The Ethical Appeal of the Indifferent: Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault --
_tPart II: Franz Kafka and the Performance of Sacrifice --
_t4. Unleashed Contingency? The Deterritorialization of Reality in The Trial --
_t5. State of Exception: The Birthplace of Kafka’s Narrative Authority --
_t6. Almost the Same but not Quite: Kafka and His ‘Assignees’ --
_t7. Positional Outsiders and the Performance of Sacrifice --
_tPart III: J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Deterritorialization --
_t8. The Withheld Self-revelation: The ‘Real’ and Realities in Waiting for the Barbarians --
_t9. Conscience on the Pillar of Shame: The Grace of the Graceless in Disgrace --
_t10. From Lectures to Lessons and Back Again: The Deterritorialization of Transmission in Elizabeth Costello --
_tAppendix --
_tDeprived of Protection: The Ethico-Politics of Authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis book proposes a new departure point for the investigation of transnational literary alliances: the traumatic constellation of translatio imperii, which followed the dissolution of the East-Central European empires in the 1920s and the crumbling of the West European colonial empires in the 1950s. To prevent their breakdown, the former transitioned from a ‘sovereign’ to a ‘disciplinary’ mode of administration of their peripheries, the latter from the merciless assimilation of their colonial constituencies to their affirmative regeneration. This book treats Franz Kafka as the writer of the first transition, prefiguring J. M. Coetzee as the writer of the second. In a series of close readings, it investigates the particular ways in which the restructuring of power relations between the agencies in their fictions is a response to the delineated post-imperial reconfiguration of the new countries’ governmental techniques. By displacing their narrative authority beyond the reach of their readers, they laid bare the sudden withdrawal of transcendental guarantees from the world of human commonality. This entailed an unstable and elusive configuration of their fictional worlds as a key feature of post-imperial literature.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aColonies in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature, Modern
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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653 _aTranslatio imperii.
653 _anarrative authority, deterritorialization.
653 _aself-exemption.
700 1 _aBiti, Vladimir
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732245
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110732245
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