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Confrontation and identity in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee
… is an examination of the fictional works of J.M. Coetzee to date. By focusing my gaze upon either the lack of encounter or the encounters between the 'Self' and the 'Other', I explore the relationship between confrontation and the fluid formation and erosion of identity. This exploration takes …
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From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee
One of the notable features of JM Coetzee's work is the portrayal in his novels, particularly in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond …
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Self and politics in the novels of J. M. Coetzee
… postcolonial resonances in the novels of J. M. Coetzee. As an Afrikaner writing in English against the grain of a mythic Afrikaner past Coetzee blends allegory, realism and poststructural narrative techniques to produce powerful critiques of colonial and postcolonial domination. Coetzee can be …
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The poetics of reciprocity in selected fictions by J. M. Coetzee
… the function of reciprocity in the work of J. M Coetzee. 1 "The I-You relation ... connects with larger things in the whole of [Coetzee's] work, what I would like to call broadly the poetics of reciprocity." (Attwell 1992: 58) This dissertation seeks to examine the poetics of reciprocity as an …
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Aspects of time and narrative in the novels of J.M. Coetzee
… linked, this thesis aims to show how J.M. Coetzee's fictional narratives are concerned with the effects of historical time on both the characters of the novels and on the novels themselves; that is, more generally ,speaking, on literature. The study analyses the novels paying attention to …
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Per un'etica della letteratura: la cornice il doppio legame nell'opera di J. M. Coetzee
The elusive fiction of J. M. Coetzee is not a work in which you can read fixed ethical stances. I suggest testing the potentialities of a logic based on frames and double binds in Coetzee's novels. A double bind is a dilemma in communication which consists on tho conflicting messages, with the …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… examines the writing of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee and its postcolonial interventions in modernism and postmodernism. Chapter I, ""The Postcolonial Sensibilities of the Native Alien,"" focuses on current postcolonial theoretical debates on resistance and authenticity; it then positions Rhys …
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Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera
… in the work of two Southern African writers, JM Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera. It discusses the trope's use in redefining the dominant theme of the dialectic between scarcity and plenty. In much of Southern African literature, this dialectic is expressed allegorically. Drought represents a …
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Emigration, literary celebrity, and the autobiographical turn in J.M. Coetzee's later fiction
Whereas commentary on autobiography in Coetzee tends to focus on the dynamics of secular confession and the idea of self-writing as 'autre-biography,' this thesis, taking the experience of emigration and literary celebrity as thematic pivots, argues that the protagonists of Coetzee's later fiction …
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Speaking Subjects: Beckett’s Not I, Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and Coetzee’s Foe
… Beckett’s Not I in relation to Rushdie and Coetzee, I show that The Satanic Verses and Foe suggest approaches to language similar to Beckett’s play, insofar as each text interrogates the ability of the marginalized speaking subject to maintain control of his or her voice, finding that the …
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"Not rape, not quite that" : an exploration of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and in The Heart of the Country within the South African context
… close examination of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and In the Heart of the Country within the South African context. Initially, I briefly explore the proposition that the problem of rape in South Africa is perpetuated by the myths about rape which essentially obfuscate the reality …
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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
… and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van …
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… between his work and the early writing of J.M. Coetzee, which suggest that Coetzee anticipated characteristic post-apartheid narrative strategies ahead of their time. Further, the innovative magic realist forms of Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001) …
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Prison and Garden: Cape Town, Natural History and the Literary Imagination
… Watson, Zoë Wicomb and, in particular, J. M. Coetzee. Although it would hardly claim to be a literary history of Cape Town, it begins by asking what it might mean to read a history of the city through its literature. Yet moving beyond an initial enquiry into how (and at what cost) imaginative …
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Subject to reading : literacy and belief in the work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire
… from literature, particularly that of J.M. Coetzee, in an attempt to explicate the dynamics with which both Freire and Lacan are preoccupied. Coetzee is particularly suited to this end because his novels are largely concerned with how subjects confront the necessity as well as the difficulty …
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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
… I examine through a close reading of J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) the textual dymamic that impels the two narrator-protagonists toward the solipsist position - the ground of the true Cartesian. I show how Eugene Dawn and Jacobus Coetzee are presented as products of Western print culture …
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
Derek Attridge’s insight that, ‘Coetzee’s works both stage, and are, irruptions of otherness into our familiar worlds, and they pose the question: what is our responsibility towards the Other?’ (Attridge 2005: JM Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event, xii), is …
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A universal key : utopias and universals in JM Coetzee's The childhood of Jesus
… not as overtly stated, it will be shown that JM Coetzee in The Childhood of Jesus replicates to some extent the style and structure of Plato’s The Republic. In light of these similarities, a comparison between these two works acts as the primary structural framework to this investigation. …
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