Writing "Out of all the Camps": J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of
Displacement is an interdisciplinary examination--combining
ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental
theory--of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize-winning South African
novelist J. M. Coetzee, primarily through his voicing of a female
subject position and his presentation of a voiceless subjectivity,
the animal, displaces both the narrative and authorial voice in his
works of fiction. Coetzee's work remains outside of conventional
notions of genre by virtue of the free indirect discourse that
characterizes many of his third-person narrated texts that feature
male protagonists (Life & Times of Michael K, The Master of
Petersburg, and Disgrace), various and differing first-person
narrative accounts of the same story (Dusklands, In the Heart of
the Country), the use of female narrators and female narrative
personas (Age of Iron, The Lives of Animals), and unlocatable,
ahistorical contexts (Waiting for the Barbarians). The work has
broad academic appeal in the established fields of not only
literary studies--postcolonial, contemporary, postmodern and
environmental--but also in the realm of performance and gender
studies. Because of its broad and interdisciplinary range, this
text bridges a conspicuous gap in studies on Coetzee.
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