Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Taking Writing to Exception: By Way of Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 The Trauma of Literature: A Promenade through the Archive on the Avant-Garde and Politics 9
6. Chapter 2 The Party and the Book: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism and Amateur Democracy 41
7. Chapter 3 The Paper State: Paul van Ostaijen, Expressionism and Constitutional Heterotopia 87
8. Chapter 4 The Secret Politician: Richard Huelsenbeck, Dadaism and the Redemption of Literature 135
9. The Law of Literature: By Way of Conclusion 193
10. Notes 205
11. Index 241