J.M. Coetzee
Articles
- Strange Kinships: Embodiment and Belief in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello
A demand that beliefs be embodied and presented, or indeed placed on trial, forms a persistent refrain of J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. It is…
1 October 2013 - Review of J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship, by Jane Poyner
Jane Poyner's first book, the edited collection J.M Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual (Ohio UP, 2006) ranks among the most important contributions…
1 October 2010 - A Dog with a Broken Back: Animals as Rhetoric and Reality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee’s fiction ‘calls into question [the] longstanding cultural assumption of human superiority [over animals]. His novels Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, in particular, foreground philosophical…
1 June 2010 - Review of J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism, by Katherine Hallemeier
In the old sense of 'cosmopolitan' as describing a global citizen, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee certainly could be seen to fit the bill. Born in…
1 June 2014 - Magda Meets Theodora: Language and Interiority in The Aunt’s Story and In The Heart of the Country
In ‘Orders of Discourse’ Foucault raises the deeply embedded opposition between reason and folly: ‘From the depths of the Middle Ages a man was mad…
25 February 2018 - Serving ‘a Male Philosophy’? Elizabeth Costello’s Feminism and Coetzee’s Dialogues with Joyce
In this essay, I show that J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello is shaped fundamentally by an engagement with Joyce’s Ulysses. However, the relationship between…
25 February 2018 - Eurydice’s Curse: J. M. Coetzee and the Prospect of Death
The prospect of death is one of J. M. Coetzee’s central and enduring concerns. As David Attwell observes in his biography, ‘The most trenchant of…
25 February 2018 - Coetzee’s Womanizing
The theme of womanizing has attracted much critical commentary – and speculation – in discussions of Coetzee’s writing. In this paper, however, I discuss an…
25 February 2018 - ‘In Every Story There Is a Silence’: Translating Coetzee’s Female Narrators into Italian
Translating is not only an exercise in the restoration of meaning. The translator’s true challenge lies in restoring meaning while preserving the way in which…
25 February 2018 - The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-Woman in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
In her well-read work on contemporary feminist theory titled Nomadic Subjects (2011), Rosi Braidotti gets to grips with the Deleuzian notion of ‘becoming-woman’. Noting that…
25 February 2018 - Coetzee and Wicomb: Writers Giving an Account of Themselves in Age of Iron and October
J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Zoë Wicomb’s October feature female writers who are also academics giving an account of themselves through an autobiographical…
25 February 2018 - In the Heart of the Country and Pain: Re-reading Space, Gender and Affect
This essay offers a new spatial reading of In the Heart of the Country. It explores J. M. Coetzee’s interest in grounding white female…
25 February 2018 - Revisiting the ‘Problem’ of Anthropomorphism through Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (2014)
In Ceridwen Dovey’s short story cycle, Only the Animals, inter-textual allusions to established fictional animals are imposed onto settings of human conflict and ventriloquised…
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