...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...

...Carrol Clarkson MARAIS MIKE , Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee ( Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2009 ), pp. 249 , cloth, $72.00 . HAYES PATRICK , J. M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett ( Oxford : Oxford UP...

...Benjamin R. Davies Abstract The first two books of J. M. Coetzee's recent trilogy, The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), are extremely strange. Just when “the Australian fiction,” following the works set in South Africa and various international locations, was thought...

... . . . 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...

...Victoria Googasian Abstract J. M. Coetzee's late fictions display a recurrent fascination with attitudes of faith and belief. This preoccupation has been read sometimes as an effort to reinvigorate the novel's engagement with materiality and embodied life, other times as an elegy to the waning...

...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man considers “care” in contemporary liberal-capitalist societies, including the ostensibly frivolous care of and care for literature. In contrast to grander affects and occupations, care often seems to be “just care,” as if it fails to live up...

...Benjamin H. Ogden One of the most pressing problems posed by J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is that of the novel as a genre: what it is and is not, how readers “create” texts and their meanings, how literary tradition and genre typologies are constructed and passed down, the plasticity...

... of the literary in our globalized, multimedia present? These questions also happen to lie at the heart of J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007). As I argue in this essay, this is not just because it is a challengingly singular literary act, which demands that we rethink some of our guiding assumptions about...

...Madigan Haley This essay approaches the global as an ethos emergent within contemporary fiction, taking J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) as its primary example. Recent accounts of global or world literature have generally considered these solely as spheres of circulation, while dominant accounts...

...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...

... Adorno Theodor . “ Late Style in Beethoven .” Essays on Music . Ed. Leppert Richard . Berkeley : U of California P , 2002 . 564 – 68 . Attridge Derek . “ Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage .” The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee...

..., of the “ wrong at the heart of a fictional differend” (396; emphasis added). In 1973, J. M. Coetzee began drafting a novel that he later abandoned, titled “The Burning of the Books.” “Fiction,” he wrote in his notes toward that work, “being a serious affair, cannot accept pre-requisites like (1) a desire...

...David Attwell CLARKSON CARROL , J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 ), pp. 224 , cloth, $89.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Fiction and the Linguistic Turn CARROL CLARKSON, J. M. Coetzee...

...Eleni Coundouriotis Works Cited Coetzee J. M. Disgrace . New York : Penguin , 2000 . Slaughter Joseph . Human Rights, Inc. New York : Fordham UP , 2007 . “ Universal Declaration of Human Rights .”, 1948 . < http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ > (accessed...

..., State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012), pp. 272, cloth, $58.50. In the convulsive dying years of the apartheid regime, J. M. Coetzee famously characterized South African literature as a ‘‘less than fully human literature, unnaturally preoccupied...

... teacher of literature, as she describes facing the intense desire of students at all levels to pathologize and judge literary characters for their behavior, real or imagined. In Vermeule’s exemplary case, this desire erupts during a graduate seminar on J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. Instead of provoking...

... exploration of the stubborn lingering of that difficult-to-define phenomenon that we call “religion” in the work of three of the most celebrated novelists of our putatively secular age—Samuel Beckett, Thomas Mann, and J. M. Coetzee. Pecora's book is also, however, a thorough reimagining of the relationship...

... of ethics and narrative, keeping a tight grip on his central argument as he offers close readings of singular works by four writers: J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki. Palumbo-Liu notes with dismay Larry Summers's heinous suggestion in a 1991 World Bank memo that because first...

... in which apartheid affected literary and cultural productions during this period. Focusing on a broad array of writers, from canonized authors J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer to such lesser-known figures as Athol Fugard, Miriam Tlali, and Zakes Mda, Barnard cogently demonstrates that the politics...

... chroniclers of brutality and disconsolation such as J. M. Coetzee. Another of the writers is Salman Rushdie, whose appearance may be predictable in a book concerned with interfaith friction but whose writing warrants renewed attention for the way it treads a complex line between redeeming prospects...