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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... essay and the novel also part com- pany . The essay describes a paradoxical effect of the " poetics of failure , ” in which the critique of notions of the self's autonomy retreats into a post - Romantic attempt to erect the work itself ...
... essay and the novel also part com- pany . The essay describes a paradoxical effect of the " poetics of failure , ” in which the critique of notions of the self's autonomy retreats into a post - Romantic attempt to erect the work itself ...
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... essay ends , however , by contrasting “ historical ” and " eschatological " conceptions of temporality . The eschatological is an " everlasting present " in which narration itself , the voice of enuncia- tion , resides : Now that the ...
... essay ends , however , by contrasting “ historical ” and " eschatological " conceptions of temporality . The eschatological is an " everlasting present " in which narration itself , the voice of enuncia- tion , resides : Now that the ...
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... Essays on South African Literary Culture . Ed . Martin Trump . Johannesburg : Ravan , 1990. 41–60 . Coetzee , J. M. ... Essay in Stylistic Analysis . " Diss . U of Texas at Austin , 1969 . " The First Sentence of Yvonne Burgess's The ...
... Essays on South African Literary Culture . Ed . Martin Trump . Johannesburg : Ravan , 1990. 41–60 . Coetzee , J. M. ... Essay in Stylistic Analysis . " Diss . U of Texas at Austin , 1969 . " The First Sentence of Yvonne Burgess's The ...
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