J.M. Coetzee and the paradox of postcolonial authorship
By: Jane Poyner.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780754654629
Subjects: Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation; Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- -- Characters -- Authors; Authorship in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century; South Africa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Father makes merry with children : madness and mythology in Dusklands; title: Refusing to yield to the spectre of reason : the madwoman in the attic in In the heart of the country; title: Madness and civilization in Waiting for the barbarians; title: Cultivating the margins in The trial of Michael K : strategies in the service of skepticism; title: Bodying forth the other : Friday and the discursive situation in Foe; title: Writing in the face of death : false etymologies and home truths in The age of iron; title: Evading the censor/censoring the self in The master of Petersburg; title: Truth and reconciliation in Disgrace; title: Coetzee's acts of genre in the later works : truth-telling, fiction, and the public intellectual.