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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970647803321

Titolo

J.M. Coetzee in context and theory / [edited by] Elleke Boehmer, Katy Iddiols and Robert Eaglestone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009

ISBN

9786612466649

9786613205032

9781472542533

1472542533

9781282466647

128246664X

9781283205030

1283205033

9781441119353

1441119353

9781441134691

1441134697

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Literature and society - South Africa - History - 20th century

Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century

Literature and history - South Africa - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Foreword: Elleke Boehmer, Robert Eaglestone, Katy Iddiols -- Part I: Context  -- 1. Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View, André Brink -- 2. Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Literature, Louise Bethlehem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) -- 3. Coetzee and Gordimer, Karina Szczurek -- 4. Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa, Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven) -- 5. Border Crossings: self and text, Sue Kossew (University of New South Wales) -- 6. Sex, Comedy, and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett, Derek Attridge (University of York)  -- Part 2: Theory -- 7.  Writing Desire Responsibly, Rosemary Jolly



(Queen's University) -- 8. Literature, History and Folly, Patrick Hayes (University of Oxford) -- 9. Queer Bodies, Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) -- 10. Eating (Dis)Order, Kyoko Yoshida (Keio University) -- 11. Acts of Mourning, Russell Samolsky (University of California, Santa Barbara) -- 12. Sublime Abjection, Mark Mathuray (Royal Holloway, University of London) -- 13. Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations, Anne Haeming -- 14. Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies, Katy Iddiols (Royal Holloway, University of London) -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.