A Story of South Africa : : J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction in Context / / Susan VanZanten Gallagher.

With the publication of Age of Iron--winner of Britain's richest fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year for 1990--J. M. Coetzee is now recognized as one of the foremost writers of our day. In this timely study of Coetzee's fiction, Susan Gallagher places his work in the context...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1991
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Diction
  • 1 History and the South African Writer
  • 2 Naming the Other: History, Language, and Authority
  • 3 The Master Myth of History: Dus glands
  • 4 A Feminine Story: In the Heart of the Country
  • 5 The Novelist and Torture: Waiting for the Barbarians
  • 6 Apocalypse: Life & Times of Michael Κ
  • 7 Writing for the Other: Foe
  • 8 The Unquiet Dead: Age of Iron
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index