... . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe . This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration...

...Sarah Winter This essay locates the subject of human rights in the narrative forms of J. M. Coetzee's novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe through an interpretation drawing on Jacques Rancière's theory of dissensus and tracing the novel's historical relations to the equitable and remedial...

...: Ousmane Sembène’s Xala, J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, and Mistry’s A Fine Balance. The claim is that in each of these, realism is less relevant as a fully developed mode than as an “impulse” that asks to be read as a meaningful feature of postcoloniality. For most critics, the realist impulse can represent...

... ): 47 – 48 . Coetzee J. M. Foe . London : Penguin , 2010 . Coetzee J. M. In the Heart of the Country . London : Vintage , 2014 . Coetzee J. M. Life and Times of Michael K . London : Vintage , 2004 . Coetzee J. M. The Master of Petersburg . London...

... . Coetzee , J.M. Foe . Johannesburg: Ravan P, 1986 . Coetzee , J.M. Interview with David Attwell. Dagens Nyheter . 7 Dec . 2003 . Coetzee , J.M. In the Heart of the Country. Johannesburg: Ravan P, 1978 . Coetzee , J.M. The Master of Petersburg . London: Secker, 1994...

...). Again, Marais’s discussions of hospitality dem- onstrate through close readings of Coetzee’s works how a philosophical ethics plays itself out, not only in the thematic patternings of hospitality in novels like Dusklands, Life & Times of Michael K, Foe, Age of Iron, and Slow Man, but also...

... University. He has published on Foe, pornography, Niklas Luhmann, Hannibal Lecter, The Big Lebuwski, torture, and Thomas Jefferson. The present essay is drawn froin his forthcoming hook, On Llrrgering nrld Bei!ing Lnst: Frctiorrs of Rnce nnd Sovereignty in the Nrw Worid. STUART BURROWS is Robert...

... and Ideology . Ed. George Levine. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994 . 243 –63. Attridge , Derek . “Oppressive Silence: J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and the Politics of the Canon.” Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of 20th-Century “British” Literary Canons . Ed. Karen R. Lawrence Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992...

... class welled up, and when the obscenities of Mrs. Aphra Behn, still the diversion of ladies of fashion, were found on the same table with De Foe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ ” (402). But after this promising beginning, the sense of the novel’s relation to class is nowhere developed or sustained in Taine’s...

... accurate, for, despite opening and closing sections that are rnm overtly theoretical, the other ten chapters set about practically applying this imperialist PAUL GlLES I IMPERIAL CULTURE paradigm to eight canonical writers-foe, Charles Brockden Brown, Melville...

...~eenWomen differs from Behiteen Men and why explor- ing relations between women calls for a different form of reading: Becarise I foe-us OR a range ulitliin tlre norl~rratjicr tkan on a brittle divisioil behi~eerz p~escribrd and proscribed belzaoior, the relationships I shtdy do rzot have...

...-postmodern novels as Coetzee’s Foe or Delillo’s Libra may offer “productive ways of representing, and accessing, the past” (189)—remind us of the limitations of any reading that concludes with the “real” and the “true.” Berlatsky’s argument against a brand of interpretation that he sees as offering...

... human in the early fiction (in texts not covered in the previous chapter, “You More than a few readers would expect an extended discussion of the voiceless Friday in Foe and all he stands for, for example. The paradox of a writer who is so committed to dialogic practices—countervoices—choosing...

.... As its title indicates, the text makes the problem of genre part of its own fabric, taking Coetzee’s sustained preoccupa- tion with the powers and limits of various modes of writing, including letters (Foe and Age of Iron), lectures (Elizabeth Costello), and journals (Dusklands and In the Heart...

... proponent of the scientific method might cite the lunar landing, or, nowadays, the internet; but the advocate of science as a kind of cogni- tive truth, Herbert's real foe here, would be far more likely to cite the splitting of the atom, the Michelson-Morley experiments, or relativity theory itself...

... direction: Life & Times of Michael K (1983) is set in an imaginary near future and Foe (1986) in an equally imaginary eighteenth century; Age of Iron (1990) takes the form of an impossible letter; The Master of Petersburg (1994) presents a fictional episode in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Only...

... highly popular, female detective stories from the period between Foe and Hammett to create a "corrective history of detective fiction" (xi) and, in the process, to clarify "ideologies of gender and domesticity" from the Victorian to the Modem eras (xiv). The ensuing arguments are complex and varied...

... of a journal, a diary,” and thus, conversely, unreliable ( Conrad 5 ). Words, as Conrad's fictional “teacher of languages” opines, are “the great foes of reality” ( 5 ). But these framings simply draw our attention to the paradoxical compact that constitutes the category of fiction (we consume the work...

... you, for a Tale, so high to go, Said I, have you not Robinson Crusoe? There Incidents in full Perfection flow. (Such a Dramatick, is the fam’d De Foe.) (209–10) Across the Atlantic in Boston, three pamphlets were published in 1720 that invoked Crusoe in order to lampoon Governor Samuel...

...: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991 . Edwards , P.D. Some Mid-Victorian Thrillers: The Sensation Novel, Its Friends and Its Foes . St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1971 . Elam , Diane . “White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie...