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'Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the ‘politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.' (Publisher's summary)

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  • Contents:

    Post-apartheid literature: a personal view / André Brink

    Elizabeth Costello as post-apartheid text / Louise Bethlehem

    Coetzee and Gordimer / Karina Magdalena Szczurek

    Wordsworth and the recollection of South Africa / Pieter Vermeulen

    Border crossings: self and text / Sue Kossew

    Sex, comedy and influence: Coetzee's Beckett / Derek Attridge

    Writing desire responsibly / Rosemary Jolly

    Literature, history and folly / Patrick Hayes

    Queer bodies / Elleke Boehmer

    Eating (dis)order: from metaphoric cannibalism to cannibalistic metaphors / Kyoko Yoshida

    Acts of mourning / Russell Samolsky

    Sublime abjection / Mark Mathuray

    Authenticity: diaries, chronicles, records as index-simulations / Anne Haeming

    Disrupting inauthentic readings: Coetzee's strategies / Katy Iddiols

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Continuum ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: x, 206p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      ISBN: 0826498833 (hbk.), 9780826498830 (hbk.), 144110111X (pbk.), 9781441101112 (pbk.), 1441134697 (eBook), 9781441134691 (eBook)
      Series: y separately published work icon Continuum Literary Studies London : Continuum , 2006 8158100 2006 series - publisher criticism Number in series: 193
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