Introduction Anthony Uhlmann
1. In quest of ‘other modes of being’: J.M. Coetzee’s ontological inquiries Yoshiki Tajiri
2. Dusklands and the meaning of method Anthony Uhlmann
3. The violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee’s Dusklands Lynda Ng
4. Reading between life and work: reflections on ‘J.M. Coetzee’ Elleke Boehmer
5. Coetzee & co: failure, lies and autobiography Paul Sheehan
6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka’s courtroom in Coetzee’s Disgrace Christopher Conti
7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in Coetzee’s writing Claudia Egerer
8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the impersonal in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Richard A. Barney
Biography
Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), Beckett and Poststructuralism (2008), and Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (2011). He is currently completing a book on J. M. Coetzee.
