J. M. Coetzee’s Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)responsibilities of Literary Creation

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyrights\nContent\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction\n	The child in Coetzee: A story waiting to be told\n	Towards a poetics of the child\n	From Levinas and Derrida to Agamben and Arendt\n	Writing and the child\n		The child as the object of writerly desire\n		The writer as child\n	Conceptions of the child\n		‘The child’ – a fluid concept\n		The child and the fully human\n		A figure of openness and possibility\n	Outline\n1 The story of the (un)romantic child: Innocence, truth, and first fictions of the self\n	Fragments of childhoods\n	(Un)romantic children\n	Navigating fictions\n	Moments of openness\n	Authentic encounters: From self to other\n2 Ethics of the not-so-other child\n	The savage-as-child-as-self\n	Children of iron\n	Ethics of indeterminacy\n3 The child between past and future\n	Natality and the event\n	Worrying about the child\n	Getting beyond death\n	Amor mundi and transmissibility\n	The interregnum, freedom, and writing\n	Pedagogy and play\n	From natality to infancy\n4 Childish behaviour: The poetics of study\n	From waiting to ‘pressing on\n	The incessant shuttling of study\n	Grasping the potentialities of the present\n	Impotentiality and the curious state of infancy\n	Embracing uncertainty\n	From childish to childlike\n5 The redemptive nonposition of infancy\n	The burdensome search for truth\n	Infancy and language as such\n	Being like a child: ‘The revocation of every vocation\n	Infancy and ethics\n	Writing and redemption\nCoda\nReferences\nIndex