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J.M. Coetzee : South Africa and the politics of writing /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Collection: | Perspectives on Southern Africa ;
48. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520912519 0520912519 0585224234 9780585224237 0520078101 9780520078109 0520078128 9780520078123 0864862474 9780864862471 |