Part I. Forms. Composition & Craft : Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K / David Attwell -- Scenes & Settings : Foe, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man / Meg Samuelson -- Stories & Narration : In the Heart of the Country, The Master of Petersburg, The Childhood of Jesus / Jarad Zimbler -- Styles : Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus / David James -- Genres : Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime / Derek Attridge -- Part II. Relations. Translations / Jan Steyn -- Collaboration & Correspondence / Rachel Bower -- Criticism & Scholarship / Sue Kossew -- Influence & Intertextuality / Patrick Hayes -- Worlds, Worldmaking, & Southern Horizons / Ben Etherington -- Part III. Mediations. Other Arts & Adaptations / Michelle Kelly -- Philosophies / Anthony Uhlmann -- Lives & Archives / Andrew Dean -- Publics & Personas / Andrew van der Vlies.
Summary:
"J. M. Coetzee is the author of thirteen novels, three autobiographical fictions, and several volumes of translations, critical essays, correspondence, and short stories. Born in 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa, and resident there throughout his childhood and for much of his adult life, he has lived since 2002 in Adelaide, Australia. Claimed initially as a South African author, and subsequently by a host of other constituencies, Coetzee's career has been powerfully shaped by his intimate experiences of apartheid's brutality and the demands of decolonization; the twilight of European imperialism and the persistent inequalities wrought by neo-colonialism and late capitalism; the 'hypercentrality' of the English language and the provinciality of the two settler colonies in which he has made himself at home.1 These experiences are at the heart of all Coetzee's writings, as is his commitment to a rigorous thinking through of literary practice, literary history, and the horizons conditioning literary forms and their expressive possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
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