214 Pages
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Routledge
214 Pages
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Routledge
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In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee's literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author's abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the "paradox of postcolonial authorship". Writers of conscience or conscience-stricken writers of the kind Coetzee portrays, whilst striving symbolically to bring the stories of the marginal and the oppressed to light,... Read more
Introduction Positioning the Writer; Chapter 1 “Father Makes Merry with Children”: Madness and Mythology in Dusklands; Chapter 2 Refusing to “Yield to the Spectre of Reason”: The Madwoman in the Attic in In the Heart of the Country; Chapter 3 Madness and Civilization in Waiting for the Barbarians; Chapter 4 Cultivating the Margins in the Trial of Michael K: “Strategies in the Service of Skepticism”; Chapter 5 Bodying Forth the Other: Friday and the “Discursive Situation” in Foe; Chapter 6 Writing in the Face of Death: “False Etymologies” and “Home Truths” in the Age of Iron; Chapter 7 Evading the Censor/Censoring the Self in The Master of Petersburg; Chapter 8 Truth and Reconciliation in Disgrace 1 An early version of this Chapter appeared in Scrutiny2 5.2 (2000).; Chapter 9 Coetzee’s Acts of Genre in the Later Works: Truth-telling, Fiction and the Public Intellectual;
Biography
Jane Poyner is lecturer in postcolonial literature and theory at the University of Exeter.
'Poyner's formulation and elaboration of the paradox of postcolonial authorship is compelling in Coetzee's case, and likely to prove a widely applicable paradigm for the study of other literatures dealing with the legacy of the colonial situation, which includes Australian literature.' Australian Literary Studies '... this is a well-researched and highly relevant book.' Notes and Queries
