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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 March 2010
      29 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511627798
      9780521482325
      9780521484237
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627798
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.365kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 210 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computational Linguistics, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (6)
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    Subjects:
    Computational Linguistics, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (6)
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    The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, written in 1998, Dominic Head assesses Coetzee's position as a white South African writer engaged with the legacy of colonialism. Through close readings of all the novels, Head shows how Coetzee inhabits a transitional site between Europe and Africa, and it is from this position that his more general concerns emerge. Coetzee's engagement with the problems facing the postcolonial writer, Head argues, is always enriched by his awareness of a wider literary tradition.

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    Review of the hardback:'Dominic Head's monograph on J. M. Coetzee is an excellent in-depth study of the novels, from which specialists and more general readers alike are stand to gain important insights into the complex make-up of the author's texts.'

    Source: Zeitschrift für Anglistik unk Amerikanistik

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