1. 'The Africa within': Dusklands, Satire, and Technologized Man; 2. 'The Congeries that I Bless with the Name of Evil': In the Heart of the Country's Sadian Permutations; 3. 'A Question without an Answer': Bafflement and the Surreal in Waiting for the Barbarians; 4. 'A New Kind of Man': Idiocy, Idleness, and Sovereignty in Life & Times of Michael K; 5. 'The Power of Blackness': Foe and the End of the Novel; 6. A Secular 'State of Grace'?: Age of Iron, Angelhood, and the Heterogeneous; 7. 'No Moral Defense': The Master of Petersburg's Escalations; 8. 'Subjugation, Execution, then Devouring': Clarissa, Animals, and Lucy's Final Word in Disgrace.