J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory

This work draws on a wide range of theoretical ideas and approaches to illuminate Coetzee's texts including: deconstruction and the 'school of singularity', ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory, issues surrounding the body and animal rights.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 Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist Andre Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.

ISBN 0826498833   Pages 218 ISBN13 9780826498830 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Weight (grammes) 485 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Continuum Literary Studies Publication date 01 Mar 2009   Height (mm) 156 Library of Congress PR9369.3   Width (mm) 234 DEWEY 823.914   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		Introduction		1
Pt. I		Context
1		Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View by Andre Brink		11
2		Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text by Louise Bethlehem		20
3		Coetzee and Gordimer by Karina Magdalena Szczurek		36
4		Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa by Pieter Vermeulen		47
5		Border Crossings: Self and Text by Sue Kossew		60
6		Sex, Comedy and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett by Derek Attridge		71
Pt. II		Theory
7		Writing Desire Responsibly by Rosemary Jolly		93
8		Literature, History and Folly by Patrick Hayes		112
9		Queer Bodies by Elleke Boehmer		123
10		Eating (Dis)Order: From Metaphoric Cannibalism to Cannibalistic Metaphors by Kyoko Yoshida		135
11		Acts of Mourning by Russell Samolsky		147
12		Sublime Abjection by Mark Mathuray		159
13		Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations by Anne Haeming		173
14		Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies by Katy Iddiols		185
		Index		199

J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory stands out among the growing number of works focusing on the work of the 2003 Nobel Prize winner as a comprehensive and innovative contribution to the author's critical writing, novels and memoirs.--,

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