References

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Post-imperial Europe: The Revenge of Peripheries
6. 1. Post-imperial Europe: The Return of the Indistinct 29
7. 2. Translating the Untranslatable: Walter Benjamin and Homi Bhabha 43
8. 3. The Ethical Appeal of the Indifferent: Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault 59
9. Part II: Franz Kafka and the Performance of Sacrifice
10. 4. Unleashed Contingency? The Deterritorialization of Reality in The Trial 71
11. 5. State of Exception: The Birthplace of Kafka’s Narrative Authority 100
12. 6. Almost the Same but not Quite: Kafka and His ‘Assignees’ 110
13. 7. Positional Outsiders and the Performance of Sacrifice 126
14. Part III: J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Deterritorialization
15. 8. The Withheld Self-revelation: The ‘Real’ and Realities in Waiting for the Barbarians 145
16. 9. Conscience on the Pillar of Shame: The Grace of the Graceless in Disgrace 180
17. 10. From Lectures to Lessons and Back Again: The Deterritorialization of Transmission in Elizabeth Costello 198
18. Appendix
19. Deprived of Protection: The Ethico-Politics of Authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement 221
20. References 237
21. Index 255