J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations of Works by J.M. Coetzee
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Method and Matter of the Revisions: Coetzee’s Posthumanist Poetic
	Coetzee’s Poetic of Revision
		Coetzee, Narratology, and Human Embodiedness
		Human Embeddedness in History-Culture and Coetzee’s Dialogism
	The Posthumanism of Coetzee’s Revisions
		Posthumanism and the Shift from (Post)structuralism Towards Practice Theory
		Engaged Agency and Symmetric Anthropology
Chapter 3: From Dehumanization to the Minimal Human
	Dusklands
		Essential Similarity Versus Cultural Relativism of the Human
		Myth, Madness, and the Self-(De)construction of the Human
		Dusklands, In the Heart of the Country, and the Turn to Testing
	Waiting for the Barbarians
		Barbarism, Language, and Torture
		Dreams of (In)humanity
		Torture, Pain, and the Unmaking of the Human
		Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” and “the Meaning of Humanity”
	Life & Times of Michael K
		Ashes and Goats
		Agamben’s Bare Life and Kafka’s “The Burrow”
		Superhuman, Miracle, Eschatological Time
		The Muselmann
		The Animal
		Odradek, or the Need to Anthropomorphize Bare Life
Chapter 4: The Human, the Animal, and the Body
	Disgrace
		Beckett’s Poetic of Drive
		Eros as God and Instinct
		Lurie as Cynic
		Identification, Luck, and Learning
	Elizabeth Costello
		The Anthropological Relevance of Costello’s Lectures on “The Lives of Animals”
		Embodiedness, Embeddedness, and How (Not) to Acknowledge Them
		Elizabeth Costello’s Performance of Embedding
		Humans, Animals, and the Ethical Potential of Literature
Chapter 5: Humanity and Collectivity: Nation, State, and Community
	Slow Man
		Mother Tongue Versus Primary Language
		Emigration, Amputation, and Diminished Man
		Cosmopolitan Adaptability and the Ghost of Yugoslavia
	The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus
		Fictions of Social Reality Versus Needs of the Body
		Humanity Beyond ‘Language Games’ and ‘Rule-following’: David’s Essentialism
		Seriality and the Escalation of “Passion”: From Childhood to Schooldays
		Being-Both, or Impurity
		The Human as Dancer
Chapter 6: Epilogue
Works Cited
Index