Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives,
this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary
of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals:
aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his
"late modernist" aesthetic; exploring the relationship between
Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying
particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments.
These objectives are realized in essays focusing on, among other
matters, the function of names and etymology in Coetzee's fiction,
the vexed relationship between art and politics in apartheid South
Africa, the importance of film in Coetzee's literary sensibility,
Coetzee's reworkings of Defoe, the paradoxes inherent in
confessional narratives, ethics and the controversial politics of
reading Disgrace, intertextuality and the fictional
self-consciousness of Slow Man. Through its pronounced emphasis on
the novelist's later work, the collection points towards a
narrato-political and linguistic reassessment of the Coetzee canon.
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