ANC Leadership
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Barbara Dancygier
Black South African Activists
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Chandos Letter
Coetzee's Critics
Coetzee's Fiction
Coetzee’s Fiction
costello
david
diary
Double Thoughts
Draw Back
elizabeth
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Eugene Dawn
Foundational Fiction
Fyodor Dostoevsky
How Not To Die
Human Suffering
Karoo Farm
Lady Chandos
Lucy's Rape
lurie
Main Character
man
Nadine Gordimer
Paul Rayment
Secular Confession
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Slow Man
Vice Versa
Voortrekker Monument
William Kentridge
year
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754668039
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic; exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments. These objectives are realized in essays focusing on, among other matters, the function of names and etymology in Coetzee's fiction, the vexed relationship between art and politics in apartheid South Africa, the importance of film in Coetzee's literary sensibility, Coetzee's reworkings of Defoe, the paradoxes inherent in confessional narratives, ethics and the controversial politics of reading Disgrace, intertextuality and the fictional self-consciousness of Slow Man. Through its pronounced emphasis on the novelist's later work, the collection points towards a narrato-political and linguistic reassessment of the Coetzee canon.
Graham Bradshaw is Honorary Professor of English and Fine Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia; and Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
