J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the politics of writing
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Beteilige Person: Attwell, David 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley ; Los angeles ; Oxford University of California Press 1993
Cape Town ; Johannesburg David Philip
Schriftenreihe:Perspectives on Southern Africa 48
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Abstract: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.
Umfang:ix, 147 Seiten
ISBN:0520078128
9780520078123
0520078101
9780520078109
0864862474
9780864862471