1st Edition
Writing Out of All the Camps J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement
By Laura Wright
Copyright 2006
168 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Writing "Out of all the Camps": J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement is an interdisciplinary examination--combining ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental theory--of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, primarily through his voicing of a female subject position and his presentation of a voiceless subjectivity, the... Read more
Chapter 1 (Dis) Placing Coetzee: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Coetzee's Dogs from Simile to Signified: South African History, Environment, and Literature; Chapter 3 Displacing the Voice: Coetzee's Female Narrators; Chapter 4 Resisting the Voice: Waiting for the Magistrate and Michael K; Chapter 5 The Performance of Displacement: Disgrace and The Lives of Animals;
Biography
Laura Wright is Assistant Professor of English at Western Carolina University. Her primary areas of interest and scholarship include contemporary postcolonial and world literature, environmental theory, and performance studies. She has published work in Mosaic, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, African Studies Review, and Minnesota Review.
