Boehmer, Elleke.
J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (217 pages) - Continuum Literary Studies . - Continuum Literary Studies .
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- 1. Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View -- 2. Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text -- 3. Coetzee and Gordimer -- 4. Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa -- 5. Border Crossings: Self and Text -- 6. Sex, Comedy and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett -- Part II: Theory -- 7. Writing Desire Responsibly -- 8. Literature, History and Folly -- 9. Queer Bodies -- 10. Eating (Dis)Order: From Metaphoric Cannibalism to Cannibalistic Metaphors -- 11. Acts of Mourning -- 12. Sublime Abjection -- 13. Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations -- 14. Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.
9781441119353
Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and history -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
PR9369.3.C58 -- Z735 2009eb
823.914
J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (217 pages) - Continuum Literary Studies . - Continuum Literary Studies .
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- 1. Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View -- 2. Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text -- 3. Coetzee and Gordimer -- 4. Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa -- 5. Border Crossings: Self and Text -- 6. Sex, Comedy and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett -- Part II: Theory -- 7. Writing Desire Responsibly -- 8. Literature, History and Folly -- 9. Queer Bodies -- 10. Eating (Dis)Order: From Metaphoric Cannibalism to Cannibalistic Metaphors -- 11. Acts of Mourning -- 12. Sublime Abjection -- 13. Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations -- 14. Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.
9781441119353
Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and history -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
PR9369.3.C58 -- Z735 2009eb
823.914