abjection, 27, 36, 37, 122 Abraham, Karl, 31 Adorno, Theodor, 28–30, 36, 38, 50, 57, 61, 122, 123 Africa, 11, 108 African-American, 2, 14, 20, 21, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 88, 100, 101, 116, 125 Agamben, Giorgio 111, 127 Age of Iron (Coetzee), 11, 29, 120, 121 Alighieri, Dante, 24, 30, 35, 36, 121 Amerindian, 63, 65, 69, 70, 72, 73 Angel of History, The (Benjamin), 7, 8, 29, 30, 44, 66–68, 74 anti-semitism, 5 apartheid, 2, 7, 17–20, 23–30, 38, 43, 50, 51, 58, 59, 115, 116, 119, 121, 123 Arawak, 63, 72–74, 76, 115 Attridge, Derek, 122 Attwell, David, 24, 25, 121, 122 Auschwitz, 28, 57, 122 Baldwin, James, 5, 126 Barnard, Rita, 38, 39, 121, 122 Beckett, Samuel, 28, 29, 61 Beloved, 1, 4, 8, 13, 18–20, 79–109, 111, 114–116, 126, 127 Benjamin, Andrew, 61 Benjamin, Walter, 7, 8, 13, 29, 30, 32, 44, 49, 66, 67, 69, 74, 120, 125 Bhabha, Homi, 5, 7, 13, 91, 92, 120, 121 Bhaduri, Bhuvaneswari, 17 Black Aesthetic Movement, 85 Black Atlantic, 3, 113, 126 Blackness, 14, 15, 17, 96, 112 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 14–17, 121 Blanchot, Maurice, 120, 121, 125, 127 Brecht, Bertolt, 28 Brooks, Peter, 21 Burger’s Daughter (Gordimer), 25 Burke, Edmund, 3 Caribbean, 2, 11, 12, 18, 54, 63, 64, 69, 116, 117 Carnival (Harris), 59, 68 Caruth, Cathy, 11, 12, 83, 116, 120, 125, 126 catharsis, 10, 64 Césaire, Aimé, 3, 15, 79, 80 Childs, Peter, 119 Coetzee, J. M., 1, 11, 14, 17–21, 23–51, 57–61, 64, 66–68, 72, 76, 77, 93, 108, 113–117, 120–124, 127 colonialism, 2–5, 7, 29, 54, 58, 63, 119, 120 community, 1, 2, 4, 11–13, 22, 54, 56, 57, 64, 65, 68, 69, 71, 75, 80, 82, 91, 92, 94–96, 100, 104, 105, 109, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 127 confession, 23, 51 critical history (Nietzsche), 62, 63 cultural memory, 86, 125 vs. racial memory. See racial memory Declaration of Independence, 17 deconstruction, 2, 9, 20, 27, 31, 59, 66, 113, 119, 122, 123 Defoe, Daniel, 33, 34, 37, 123 Index 139 Derrida, Jacques, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 13–16, 30–32, 36, 45, 46, 57, 59, 60, 64, 66, 72, 85, 113, 120, 123, 126, 127 Descartes, René, 43, 124 differend (Lyotard), 6, 19, 26, 122 Disgrace (Coetzee), 120, 122, 127 Douglas, Frederick, 94 Dovey, Teresa, 24 Drake, Sandra, 59, 60 du Plessis, Menan, 122 Emancipation Proclamation, 2 empathy, 27, 71 Enlightenment, 3, 6, 12, 26, 41, 57 Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 28 eternal return (Nietzsche), 20, 61–63, 67, 70, 73, 124 ethical universal, 3, 113, 120 Fanon, Frantz, 7, 14–18, 21, 80, 89, 112, 121 Far Journey of Oudin, The (Harris), 56, 60 Felman, Shoshana, 120, 122, 125 Foe (Coetzee), 23, 26, 32–38, 40, 42, 48, 49, 50, 76, 108, 111, 115, 123 foreclosure, 5–7, 14, 17, 81 Forgetting (capitalized), 5, 6, 17, 18, 32, 33, 39, 40, 43, 81, 123. See also foreclosure , repression Foucault, Michel, 12, 13, 30, 31, 123 Freeman, Barbara, 86–88, 93, 104, 108, 126 Freud, Sigmund, 5, 6, 9, 10, 21, 30, 33, 43, 50, 63, 69, 81, 83, 87, 89, 115–117, 123, 124 Fugitive Pieces (Michaels), 8 Gallagher, Susan, 24, 28 Gandhi, Leela, 8, 12, 119 genocide, 2, 57, 85 ghosts, 9, 35, 53–56, 60, 66, 69–72, 89, 91, 101, 104, 106, 115, 117 Gilkes, Michael, 59, 75 Gilroy, Paul, 3, 4, 113, 126 Glissant, Edouard, 11, 12, 54, 113 Gordimer, Nadine, 13, 25 Guyana, 14, 18, 60 Guyana Quartet, The (Harris), 18, 54, 56, 69, 75, 124 Hall, Stuart, 112, 113 Handley, William, 88 Harris, Wilson, 1, 2, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 53–77, 93, 108, 109, 111, 113–117, 122, 124, 125 Hartman, Geoffrey, 77, 120, 125 Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 70, 124 Hegel, G. W. F., 6, 16, 29, 60, 61, 67 Henderson, Mae, 85, 87, 97, 99, 107, 126 Hillger, Annick, 120 historicism, 7, 8, 31, 69, 85, 87, 99, 100, 112, 123 Holocaust, 3–5, 7, 8, 20, 57, 58, 67, 69, 114, 122, 124, 125. See also Auschwitz humanism, 11, 12, 47, 54, 121 Ibo/Igbo (Nigeria), 68, 69 In the Heart of the Country (Coetzee), 59, 123 infinite rehearsal (Harris), 20, 61, 63 Jews, 3, 6, 8, 81, 116, 120, 125 Jolly, Rosemary, 25, 58, 122 Kafka, Franz, 28, 29 Kant, Immanuel...