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    J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

    Kai Wiegandt

    Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a ‘poetic of testing’ which pits intertextually referenced ideas against each…

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    Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee

    Beyond the Ancient Quarrel brings together contributions from leading scholars to explore the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism in the work of J.M. Coetzee.

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett

    Patrick Hayes (Teaching Fellow in English Literature at St John's College, Oxford)

    This book argues that the significance of Coetzee’s complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging…

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    Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999

    J. M. Coetzee

    A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the…

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    Elizabeth Costello

    J.M. Coetzee

    Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to…

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    Dusklands

    J. M. Coetzee

    This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War…

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    Master of Petersburg

    J. M. Coetzee

    In The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky.

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    In the Heart of the Country

    J. M. Coetzee

    Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But…

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    Life and Times of Michael K

    J. M. Coetzee

    In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone…

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    Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life

    J. M. Coetzee

    Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, the novelist J.M. Coetzee brings a writer’s diagnostic skills to bear on his own past. With a father he could not…

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    Disgrace: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

    J. M. Coetzee

    In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal…

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    Youth

    J. M. Coetzee

    Youth’s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power: Unsettling Complicity, Complacency, and Confession

    Emanuela Tegla

    In J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power, Emanuela Tegla offers an exploration of the interconnectedness between morality and individual conscience in Coetzee’s fiction, as well as a narratological…

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    In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy

    Stephen Mulhall (Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Russell H. Carpenter Fellow in Philosophy, New College, University of Oxford)

    Stephen Mulhall explores how J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy engages with themes drawn from Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, and how Wittgenstein’s and Coetzee’s thought relates to the critique of modernity elaborated…

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    Face

    Cecile Pineda

    Finalist for the Neustadt Prize –Cover.

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    Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa: Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities

    John Higgins

    This book argues that the core content of academic freedom-the principle of supporting and extending open intellectual enquiry-is essential to realizing the full public value of higher education. John Higgins…

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    The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

    J.M. Coetzee,Arabella Kurtz

    The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies.

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    The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

    Wilma Stockenstrom

    A powerful fable originally published by Faber in 1983, translated by Nobel laureate and two-time Booker prize winner J. M. Coetzee.

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    The Expedition To The Baobab Tree: A Novel

    Wilma Stockenstrom

    A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. World Literature Today

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    The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee

    Timothy Strode

    Investigates into the problem of how narrative encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and dispossession. This book approaches the problem…

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    Wooden Man ?: Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee ( Boyhood , Youth and Summertime )

    Daniel Matias

    This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively…

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    The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee

    Timothy Strode

    First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison

    Sam Durrant

    Compares the ways in which the novels of J.M.Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era.

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    Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison

    Sam Durrant

    A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.

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    Old Myths-Modern Empires: Power, Language, and Identity in J.M. Coetzee’s Work

    Michela Canepari-Labib

    This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee’s published writings, including his most recent work. It seeks to situate his writing in the…

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    Das Unsagbare Erzeahlen: J.M. Coetzees Easthetische Strategien Zur Darstellung Von Gewalt

    Susanne Kern

    Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Erlangen-Neurnberg, 2007.

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    Cultivation as Colonization: The Spatial Basis of Human Creation in the Works of J.M. Coetzee and Timothy Findley

    Anne Haeming

    Als Vertreter postkolonialer Literatur fallen der kanadische Autor Timothy Findley und der Sudafrikaner J. M. Coetzee in mehrerer Hinsicht aus dem Rahmen. Ihre Herangehensweise erlaubt einen ungewohnten Blick auf den…

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    Time and Alterity in South African Writing: Andre Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited

    Paulina Grzeda

    Reevaluating neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth and decline, the book invites us to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on works by Brink, Coetzee and Mda, it studies South African revisioning…

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    Kompromiss im Grauen - Zur Differenzierung der Kolonialismuskritik in J.M. Coetzees Romanen Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe und Disgrace

    Sofie Renner

    Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (Seminar fur Englische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Zulassungsarbeit Staatsexamen (Lehramt Gymnasien), 47 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract…

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    Writing Out of all the Camps: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement

    Laura Wright (Western Carolina University)

    Combining postcolonial, performance, gender-based and environmental theory, this book examines the ways in which Nobel Prize winning author JM Coetzee displaces both the narrative and authorial voice in his works…

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    Writing Out of all the Camps: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement

    Laura Wright (Western Carolina University),Laura Wright

    First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

    J.M. Coetzee,William Sutcliffe,Michael Ondaatje

    Writers from Richard Ford to Alice Walker, Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers, readers, and activists in the world.

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