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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... tion , it also establishes a historical narrative , one that is provided by the essential context of colonialism in each of Coetzee's novels . He has spoken about preferring " to see the South African situation [ today ] as only one ...
... tion , it also establishes a historical narrative , one that is provided by the essential context of colonialism in each of Coetzee's novels . He has spoken about preferring " to see the South African situation [ today ] as only one ...
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... tion between a condition of barbarism , on the one hand , and a policed form of civilization , on the other , was rather unclear . Gibbon himself , says Furet , preferred pre - Christian civilization in Rome to Christianized barbarism ...
... tion between a condition of barbarism , on the one hand , and a policed form of civilization , on the other , was rather unclear . Gibbon himself , says Furet , preferred pre - Christian civilization in Rome to Christianized barbarism ...
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... tion and action " ( 171 ) . Stadler's point goes to the heart of the sense of arbitrariness that the idea of politics accrues in Michael K : the novel exploits the unreality of the state's efforts at constitutional reform ; this is the ...
... tion and action " ( 171 ) . Stadler's point goes to the heart of the sense of arbitrariness that the idea of politics accrues in Michael K : the novel exploits the unreality of the state's efforts at constitutional reform ; this is the ...
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