Post-imperial Literature : : Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee / / Vladimir Biti.
This 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Post-imperial Europe: The Revenge of Peripheries
- 1. Post-imperial Europe: The Return of the Indistinct
- 2. Translating the Untranslatable: Walter Benjamin and Homi Bhabha
- 3. The Ethical Appeal of the Indifferent: Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault
- Part II: Franz Kafka and the Performance of Sacrifice
- 4. Unleashed Contingency? The Deterritorialization of Reality in The Trial
- 5. State of Exception: The Birthplace of Kafka’s Narrative Authority
- 6. Almost the Same but not Quite: Kafka and His ‘Assignees’
- 7. Positional Outsiders and the Performance of Sacrifice
- Part III: J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Deterritorialization
- 8. The Withheld Self-revelation: The ‘Real’ and Realities in Waiting for the Barbarians
- 9. Conscience on the Pillar of Shame: The Grace of the Graceless in Disgrace
- 10. From Lectures to Lessons and Back Again: The Deterritorialization of Transmission in Elizabeth Costello
- Appendix
- Deprived of Protection: The Ethico-Politics of Authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
- References
- Index