LEADER 03860nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910818604703321 005 20240410155254.0 010 $a1-280-49706-8 010 $a9786613592293 010 $a94-012-0694-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401206945 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186513 035 $a(OCoLC)785782285 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533575 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000644695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463616 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10679870 035 $a(PQKB)11589042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008307 035 $a(OCoLC)774635941$z(OCoLC)764302517$z(OCoLC)781789289 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401206945 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3008307 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533575 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359229 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186513 100 $a20120314d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aActs of visitation$b[electronic resource] $ethe narrative of J.M. Coetzee /$fMari?a J. Lo?pez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (362 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures ;$v140 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-420-3407-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Penetration and visitation in South Africa -- pt. 2. The writer as host and guest. 330 $aThis study traces, in J.M. Coetzee?s fictional and non-fictional production, an imaginative and intellectual masterplot deriving from Coetzee?s perception of European presence in (South) Africa as having its origin in an act of illegitimate penetration and fraudulent visitation. In Coetzee?s novels, the historical and political problem of a hostile occupation and unfair distribution of the land finds a correspondence in the domestic space of house and farm, and the uneasy cohabitation of its occupants, along with the relation between hosts and guests. The seminal dimension of the categories of penetration and visitation is highlighted, as these are shown to operate not only on a spatial level but also on an epistemological, physical, psychological, hermeneutic, metafictional and ethical one: we encounter literary and psychological secrets that resist decipherment, bodies that cannot be penetrated, writers depicted as intruders, parents that ask to be welcomed by their children. This study also identifies, in Coetzee?s narrative, an ethical proposal grounded on a logic of excess and unconditionality ? a logic of ?not enough? ? lying behind certain acts of hospitality, friendship, kindness, care, and guidance to the gate of death, acts that may transform prevailing unequal socio-historical conditions and hostile personal relationships, characterized by a logic of parasitism and intrusion. As the figure of the writer progressively gains explicit prominence in Coetzee?s literary production, special attention will be paid to it, as it alternately appears as secretary and master, migrant and intruder, pervert and foe, citizen and neighbour. Overall, Acts of Visitation analyzes how Coetzee?s works depict the (South) African land, the Karoo farm, the familial household or the writer?s and literary character?s house as simultaneously contending and redemptive sites in which urgent historical, ethical, and metafictional issues are spatially explored and dramatized. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v140. 607 $aSouth Africa$xIn literature 676 $a306.09 700 $aLo?pez$b Mari?a J$01637762 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818604703321 996 $aActs of visitation$93979762 997 $aUNINA