Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Before chapter one 1
4. Movement
5. 1 The Spectrum of white violence & spectral blackness in Don DeLillo’s Zero K 33
6. 2 Reaching the limit, or how Kathy Acker used blackness to abandon Haiti and arrive home safely 59
7. 3 Against dominant visuality, or the cut as critique* 92
8. Futurity
9. 4 Ten easy steps to inherit the future. Visualizing renewal and the old prodigal boy in Marylinne Robinson’s Gilead 99
10. 5 Another town, another story 124
11. 6 Beloved endings* 129
12. Newness
13. 7 Newness and negativity in the northern history of the new 137
14. 8 Instead of conclusion* 154
15. 9 Acknowledgements 162
16. Works cited 164
17. Index 176