Description: Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his "late modernist" aesthetic. It includes essays exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his work on linguistics; and, by paying particular attention to the novelist's more recent fictional experiments, the collection points towards a narrato-political and linguistic reassessment of the Coetzee canon.
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'With fine contributions from Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Theresa and Lindiwe Dovey, Michael Neill, Lars Engle, and Zoe Wicomb, among others, this collection stands out in the field of academic criticism on J.M. Coetzee. The standard of scholarship is consistently high and the essays often elegant and inventive as they offer new strategies for reading one of the major authors of our day.' Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USA
'...the collection makes a fine addition to previous scholarship on Coetzee... Highly recommended.' Choice
'... contain[s] worthily detailed readings of the whole canon.' Times Literary Supplement
'The volume will be of interest to literary critics, psychologists, sociologists, men and women of letters, linguists, and all lovers of good reading. The book's appearance is timely and significant, in particular to those who are interested in the development of English literature in South Africa and the trends in the South African English language... very successful, instructive, and attractive.' African Studies Quarterly