Writing Out of All the Camps : J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement

ISBN-13: 9780415977074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 154 str.

Laura Wright

Opis

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 of fiction.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 (Dis) Placing Coetzee: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Coetzee's Dogs from Simile to Signified: South African History, Environment, and Literature; Chapter 3 Displacing the Voice: Coetzee's Female Narrators; Chapter 4 Resisting the Voice: Waiting for the Magistrate and Michael K; Chapter 5 The Performance of Displacement: Disgrace and The Lives of Animals;

O autorze

Laura Wright is Assistant Professor of English at Western Carolina University. Her primary areas of interest and scholarship include contemporary postcolonial and world literature, environmental theory, and performance studies. She has published work in Mosaic, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, African Studies Review, and Minnesota Review.