Reading Coetzee's Women

2019 African literature

Author : Sue Kossew
Release : 2019
Genre : African literature
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Book Rating : 780/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reading Coetzee's Women written by Sue Kossew. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee's texts address the 'woman question'. There is a focus on Coetzee's representation of women, engagement with women writers and the ethics of what has been termed his 'ventriloquism' of women's voices in his fiction and autobiographical writings, right up until his most recent novel, The Schooldays of Jesus. As such, this collection makes important links between the disciplines of literary and gender studies. It includes essays by well-known Coetzee scholars as well as by emerging scholars from around the world, providing fascinating and timely global insights into how his works are read from differing cultural and scholarly perspectives. .

Reading Coetzee's Women

2019-07-24 Literary Criticism

Author : Sue Kossew
Release : 2019-07-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Reading Coetzee's Women written by Sue Kossew. This book was released on 2019-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world’s most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee’s texts address the ‘woman question’. There is a focus on Coetzee’s representation of women, engagement with women writers and the ethics of what has been termed his ‘ventriloquism’ of women’s voices in his fiction and autobiographical writings, right up to his most recent novel, The Schooldays of Jesus. As such, this collection makes important links between the disciplines of literary and gender studies. It includes essays by well-known Coetzee scholars as well as by emerging scholars from around the world, providing fascinating and timely global insights into how his works are read from differing cultural and scholarly perspectives.

Disgrace

2017-01-03 Fiction

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Release : 2017-01-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 462/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Disgrace written by J. M. Coetzee. This book was released on 2017-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. 2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of Disgrace

On J. M. Coetzee

2018-10-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Ceridwen Dovey
Release : 2018-10-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book On J. M. Coetzee written by Ceridwen Dovey. This book was released on 2018-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again.’ For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee has ‘always been there’, ‘challenging the rest of us to keep up, resisting our attempts to pin him down.’ Her mother wrote the first critical study of Coetzee’s early novels, uncovering their startlingly original ways of bringing together literature and politics. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this family history to explore the Nobel Prize–winner’s work.

Elizabeth Costello

2017-03-07 Fiction

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Release : 2017-03-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 500/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Costello by : J. M. Coetzee

Download or read book Elizabeth Costello written by J. M. Coetzee. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

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