LEADER 03347oam 2200601I 450 001 9910495969203321 005 20230421041139.0 010 $a0-520-91251-9 010 $a0-585-22423-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520912519 035 $a(CKB)111054828789172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12020490 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205695 035 $a(PQKB)10258133 035 $a(DE-B1597)649251 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520912519 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828789172 100 $a20160829d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbu|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJ. M. Coetzee $eSouth Africa and the politics of writing /$fDavid Attwell 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1993. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 147 pages) 225 1 $aPerspectives on Southern Africa ;$v48 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-07812-8 311 0 $a0-520-07810-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Contexts: Literary, Historical, Intellectual -- $t2. "The labyrinth of my history": Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country -- $t3. Reading the Signs of History: Waiting for the Barbarians -- $t4. Writing in "the cauldron of history": Life and Times of Michael K and Foe -- $t5. Conclusion: Age of Iron -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aDavid Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's writing reconstructs and critiques some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While self-conscious about fiction-making, it takes seriously the condition of the society in which it is produced.Attwell begins by describing the intellectual and political contexts surrounding Coetzee's fiction and then provides a developmental analysis of his six novels, drawing on Coetzee's other writings in stylistics, literary criticism, translation, political journalism and popular culture. Elegantly written, Attwell's analysis deals with both Coetzee's subversion of the dominant culture around him and his ability to see the complexities of giving voice to the anguish of South Africa. 410 0$aPerspectives on Southern Africa ;$v48. 606 $aPolitics and literature$zSouth Africa$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 607 $aSouth Africa$xIn literature 607 $aSouth Africa$xHistory$y1961- 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 7$aEnglish Literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a823 700 $aAttwell$b David$0628186 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495969203321 996 $aJ. M. Coetzee$92866710 997 $aUNINA