Jane Poyner

J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship

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Produktbeschreibung

Illuminating J.M. Coetzee's preoccupation, from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, with the paradox of postcolonial authorship centering on the authority authorship engenders, Jane Poyner examines Coetzee's line of author-narrators to trace how he rehearses and revises his understanding of intellectual practice at a time of seismic change in South Africa. Her theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nobel Laureate and to postcolonial studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780754654629
• ISBN-10: 0754654621
• Artikelnr.: 45540185

Autorenporträt

Jane Poyner is lecturer in postcolonial literature and theory at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Positioning the Writer; Chapter 1 "Father Makes Merry with
Children": Madness and Mythology in Dusklands; Chapter 2 Refusing to "Yield
to the Spectre of Reason": The Madwoman in the Attic in In the Heart of the
Country; Chapter 3 Madness and Civilization in Waiting for the Barbarians;
Chapter 4 Cultivating the Margins in the Trial of Michael K: "Strategies in
the Service of Skepticism"; Chapter 5 Bodying Forth the Other: Friday and
the "Discursive Situation" in Foe; Chapter 6 Writing in the Face of Death:
"False Etymologies" and "Home Truths" in the Age of Iron; Chapter 7 Evading
the Censor/Censoring the Self in The Master of Petersburg; Chapter 8 Truth
and Reconciliation in Disgrace 1 An early version of this Chapter appeared
in Scrutiny2 5.2 (2000).; Chapter 9 Coetzee's Acts of Genre in the Later
Works: Truth-telling, Fiction and the Public Intellectual;