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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... final paragraph in these descrip- tions deals with the rape of Bushmen women , which Jacobus Coetzee represents as offering an ideal of freedom , " the freedom of the aban- doned " : unlike the colonists ' daughters , who connect the ...
... final paragraph in these descrip- tions deals with the rape of Bushmen women , which Jacobus Coetzee represents as offering an ideal of freedom , " the freedom of the aban- doned " : unlike the colonists ' daughters , who connect the ...
Pagina 67
... final sequence ( sections 230–66 ) , in which Magda displaces her efforts to achieve reciprocity to the realm of myth . The first sign that she intends giving up on the very possibility of human exchange , after Hendrik and Klein - Anna ...
... final sequence ( sections 230–66 ) , in which Magda displaces her efforts to achieve reciprocity to the realm of myth . The first sign that she intends giving up on the very possibility of human exchange , after Hendrik and Klein - Anna ...
Pagina 86
... final conclusions . This is not a nine- teenth - century resolution but a contemporary one that is low key and deliberately marginal , though critical ; postmodern , but also mindful of the limits faced by historical subjects in their ...
... final conclusions . This is not a nine- teenth - century resolution but a contemporary one that is low key and deliberately marginal , though critical ; postmodern , but also mindful of the limits faced by historical subjects in their ...
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