'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 Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.'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)
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
