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J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing Volume 48

J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing Volume 48

Attwell, David

Paperback

Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa, Book 48

African HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0520078128
ISBN13: 9780520078123
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jun 11 1993
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of situational metafiction, Coetzee's writing reconstructs and critiques some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While self-conscious about fiction-making, it takes seriously the condition of the society in which it is produced.

Attwell begins by describing the intellectual and political contexts surrounding Coetzee's fiction and then provides a developmental analysis of his six novels, drawing on Coetzee's other writings in stylistics, literary criticism, translation, political journalism and popular culture. Elegantly written, Attwell's analysis deals with both Coetzee's subversion of the dominant culture around him and his ability to see the complexities of giving voice to the anguish of South Africa.

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