Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature / Lee Quinby -- 1. The Functions of Literature / Michel Foucault -- 2. Universalizing Marginality: How Europe Became Deaf in the Eighteenth Century / Lennard J. Davis -- 3. Monstrous Body, Tortured Soul: Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses / Ellen J. Goldner -- 4. Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: The Case of Herman Melville / Malini Johar Schueller -- 5. Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis / Simon During -- 6. Cannibalizing the Humanist Subject: A Genealogy of Prospero / Tom Hayes -- 7. Grounds for Decolonization: Arguedas's Foxes / Claudette Kemper Columbus -- 8. Genealogical Determinism in Achebe's Things Fall Apart / Imafedia Okhamafe