J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of WritingUniversity of California Press, 1993 - 147 pagina's David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, arguing that he has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing his nation's ethical crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's novels are shown to reconstruct and critique some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While self-conscious about fiction-making, Coetzee's work takes seriously the condition of the society in which it is produced. Attwell begins by describing the intellectual and political contexts of Coetzee's fiction. He proceeds with a developmental analysis of the corpus of six novels, drawing on Coetzee's other writings in stylistics, literary criticism, translation, political journalism, and popular culture. Attwell's elegantly written analysis deals both with Coetzee's subversion of the dominant culture around him and with his ability to grasp the complexities of giving voice to the anguish of South Africa. |
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... Empire to array its forces , reconstitute its hierar- chies , display its symbols - in short , to refurbish itself as a complete political and semiotic system . When , in the poem , the enemy does not materialize at the city gates , the ...
... Empire to array its forces , reconstitute its hierar- chies , display its symbols - in short , to refurbish itself as a complete political and semiotic system . When , in the poem , the enemy does not materialize at the city gates , the ...
Pagina 72
... Empire itself , partly constituting and partly legitimizing Empire's terrorism : What has made it impossible for us to live in time like fish in water , like birds in air , like children ? It is the fault of Empire ! Empire has created ...
... Empire itself , partly constituting and partly legitimizing Empire's terrorism : What has made it impossible for us to live in time like fish in water , like birds in air , like children ? It is the fault of Empire ! Empire has created ...
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... Empire , were itself subject to a dimly recognized process of Aufhebung . The Magis- trate struggles , as it were , to get beyond the moment of the end , ultimately without success , and the result of this movement is a jolt back into ...
... Empire , were itself subject to a dimly recognized process of Aufhebung . The Magis- trate struggles , as it were , to get beyond the moment of the end , ultimately without success , and the result of this movement is a jolt back into ...
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