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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... future . That claim rests on something else : how to offer one's self . ( 264 ) Although this emphasis in Gordimer on the self's search for position in a newly emergent body politic is a poignant feature of her work , it is not always ...
... future . That claim rests on something else : how to offer one's self . ( 264 ) Although this emphasis in Gordimer on the self's search for position in a newly emergent body politic is a poignant feature of her work , it is not always ...
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... future so much as examining the present as it is lived by many of those who anticipate its imminent collapse . But whereas Gordimer , through future projection , challenges apartheid's system of meanings within the scope provided ...
... future so much as examining the present as it is lived by many of those who anticipate its imminent collapse . But whereas Gordimer , through future projection , challenges apartheid's system of meanings within the scope provided ...
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... future projection — as Stephen Clingman puts it , the point of this kind of fiction is rather to analyze the hidden propensities of the present from the perspective of an imagined future ( Novels of Nadine Gordimer ) —after the States ...
... future projection — as Stephen Clingman puts it , the point of this kind of fiction is rather to analyze the hidden propensities of the present from the perspective of an imagined future ( Novels of Nadine Gordimer ) —after the States ...
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Afrikaner Age of Iron allegory apartheid argues assertion attempt authority Barbarians Beckett Black Consciousness Bouvard et Pécuchet calls Cape Town Coetzee's novels context critical critique Cruso culture daughter Dawn Dawn's death debate developed Dovey Dovey's Dusklands emerges emphasis Empire essay ethical fact father final Foe's Friday Friday's Gordimer Guma Hendrik imperialism intellectual Interviews involves J. M. Coetzee Jacobus Coetzee Johannesburg Joll Kafka language liberal linguistic literary literature Magda Magistrate Magistrate's means ment metafiction Michael Michael K Michael Vaughan mother Nadine Gordimer Namaquas narrative narrator nouveau roman Novels of J. M. Pale Fire parody political position postcolonial postmodernism problem question reading realism reflexive relations relationship represents Roxana says Schreiner seems self-consciousness semiotic sense sequence situation social South Africa speak story structure struggle Susan textuality theory tion tradition Trans Vietnam Waiting white South African words writing