Index 221libertarianism, 154, 84, 85, 101, 103
Life & Times of Michael K (Coetzee),
87, 92, 123–4
logic. See rationalism
Macherey, Pierre
silence and, 128, 147, 169
subjectivity and, 15, 23
Mantel, Hilary, 48, 52, 59
Marx, Karl, 13–14, 18–19, 172–5,
180, 189 –90
Marx, Leo, 148–51
materiality
defining, 10–14
Mehta, Uday Singh, 9
Melville, Herman, 166
metaphor, 44, 87, 107
migration, 9, 21, 37, 70–2, 157, 161
Mill, John Stuart, 9, 103
Modernism, 51
Mu l h a l l, Stephen, 116 , 117, 118
nationalism, 61–3
Native Americans, 164
nature, 78–9, 148–51, 154–5
Nava, Mica, 45
Nazism, 41, 42, 45
neoliberalism, 168–74. See also
capitalism
new historicism, 50
nonhuman animals, 80, 95, 109–12,
114 –24
Nussbaum, Martha, 47, 106
ontology
defining, 12–13
ostranemie. See estrangement
Othello (Shakespeare), 27, 51–8, 72, 75
otherness, 2–3, 16, 31, 81–3, 102,
111–14
Parry, Benita, 14, 90, 190
pastoral ideal, 19, 148–51, 154–8,
160 –1, 181
patriarchy, 51, 56, 73, 102
patriotism, 131, 138, 148
Phillips, Caryl
home and, 25–6, 34, 36–7, 57,
62–4, 66
trauma and, 26, 28–9, 44, 54, 71
place and space, 8–9. See also Phillips,
Caryl and home
Pollock, Sheldon, 3–4, 56
polyphony, 16, 25–8, 30, 35. See also
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 134
Posnock, Ross, 128, 132, 146–7, 155
postcolonialism, 9, 21–2, 35–6
post-industrialism, 159, 165, 172–3
poverty, 136, 157, 168, 172–3
Poyner, Jane, 79–80, 113
prison, 32–4, 93–4, 124racism, 141–3, 145
rape, 65, 104, 110
rationalism, 46, 95, 114–15
riots, 159–63
Romanticism, 104, 148, 166
Roth, Philip
immaturity and, 132
tragedy and, 129–30, 137, 139, 153,
164 –5
Royal, Derek Parker, 127, 138Safer, Elaine, 132, 165, 168
Said, Edward, 21
salvation, 109
Schoene, Berthold, 6
Second World War. See World War II
segregation, 18, 32, 33, 132–3, 144,- See also racism
self
other and, 2–3, 23–4, 44–5, 91, 96,
100 (see also otherness)
sexual violence. See rape
Shakespeare, William, 51, 53, 57, 133,
165
shame, 33–4, 81–2, 96–7, 143