4. Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on Translations vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. When Reflexivity Becomes Porn: Mutations of a Modernist Theoretical Practice 13
7. 2. On Captivation: A Remainder from the “Indistinction of Art and Nonart” (written with Julian Rohrhuber) 31
8. 3. Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She 59
9. 4. Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood 81
10. 5. “I insist on the Christian dimension”: On Forgiveness . . . and the Outside of the Human 107
11. 6. American Studies in Japan, Japan in American Studies: Challenges of the Heterolingual Address 133
12. 7. Postcolonial Visibilities: Questions Inspired by Deleuze’s Method 151
13. 8. Framing the Original: Toward a New Visibility of the Orient 169
14. Postscript. Intimations from a Scene of Capture 183
15. Index 187