Post-imperial Literature: Translatio Imperii in Kafka and Coetzee

Acknowledgments\nContents\nIntroduction\nPart I: Post-imperial Europe: The Revenge of Peripheries\n1. Post-imperial Europe: The Return of the Indistinct\n2. Translating the Untranslatable: Walter Benjamin and Homi Bhabha\n3. The Ethical Appeal of the Indifferent: Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault\nPart II: Franz Kafka and the Performance of Sacrifice\n4. Unleashed Contingency? The Deterritorialization of Reality in The Trial\n5. State of Exception: The Birthplace of Kafka’s Narrative Authority\n6. Almost the Same but not Quite: Kafka and His ‘Assignees’\n7. Positional Outsiders and the Performance of Sacrifice\nPart III: J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Deterritorialization\n8. The Withheld Self-revelation: The ‘Real’ and Realities in Waiting for the Barbarians\n9. Conscience on the Pillar of Shame: The Grace of the Graceless in Disgrace\n10. From Lectures to Lessons and Back Again: The Deterritorialization of Transmission in Elizabeth Costello\nAppendix\nDeprived of Protection: The Ethico-Politics of Authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement\nReferences\nIndex