Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has authored and edited a number of books including Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by its Prisoners (2022) and (with Stephanie Galasso) Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency: Global Perspectives on Literature and Film (Routledge, 2023)

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. VIOLENT TIMES

I. Necropolitical space-time

Petrifying times and twin temporalities in 1000 Coils of Fear

II. Epistemic ghosting

Picaresque unheroism and ghosted knowledge in Voroshilovgrad

CHAPTER 2. ABSENT VOICES

I. Epistemologies of ignorance and petrified stories

White lies in the Bardo

II. Deadly silences

Violent silencing, necro-joking and necro-pleasure in We That Are Young

CHAPTER 3. DIVISIVE FORMS

I. Hierarchies and binaries

Logics of purity in We That Are Young

II. Split-separation in the necropatriarchy

The murderous Midas touch. Purity and profiteering in Ada's Realm

CHAPTER 4. PETRIFIED BODIES

I. Written on the body

Traces of injustice in We Need New Names

II. The body as archive

Marks of violence in Glory

CHAPTER 5. THE END OF MEANING

I. The pure and simple ... lie

Life and Death and the lie of state

II. Postnarrative

'There is no why here'. Ultimate epistemic injustice in Glory

PART 2 BREATHING FIRE. ANIMATING AESTHETICS

CHAPTER 6. INSURRECTIONARY TIMES

I. Transtemporal possibilities

Time in the singular plural. 1000 Coils of Fear and Ada's Realm

II. Epistemic revenants

Haunting and counter-memory. Voroshilovgrad and Glory

CHAPTER 7. OTHER VOICES

I. Eccentric narrators

Disruptive knowledge. Picaresque and trickster voices in We Need New Names and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

II. Guerrilla epistemology

Animals as epistemic guerrilleros. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Glory

CHAPTER 8. BODIES IN RELATION

I. Affirmative pleasure

Counter-pleasure and blues irony in Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Voroshilovgrad

II. Motherhood and mayonnaise

Chiasmus and curdling. Lincoln in the Bardo and Ada's Realm

CHAPTER 9. THE FUTURE OF MEANING

I. Meaning beyond monody

Provoking pluralism in Lincoln in the Bardo and We That Are Young

II. Animapoetics. Stories in the face of death

'There's a chance you won't be remembered as a total asshole'. Hope and community in Voroshilovgrad and Glory

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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