This project reassesses Kafka’s literature and legacy through a reading of twentieth- and twenty-first-century
authors and theorists from across the world who find in him formal blueprints for shaping experience that resists
straightforward thought and expression: genocide, colonization, slavery, racism, environmental collapse,
posthumanism. Following Kafka is the first comprehensive study of Kafka for his forms. It is the first global study of
intertextual responses to Kafka beyond superficially thematic resonance, and across post-Holocaust, postcolonial,
and posthumanist literature and theory. It proposes the first attempt to read Kafkan constructs as a bridge
between literature and the sciences.
