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Coetzee's Acts of Genre in the Later Works: Truth-Telling, Fiction and the Public Intellectual
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2009
Coetzee's Acts of Genre in the Later Works: Truth-Telling, Fiction and the Public Intellectual
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Poyner argues that 'an increasingly meta-discursive mode in Coetzee's fiction ... coincides with his departure from South Africa for Adelaide, Australia' and that, while Coetzee's 'later works may seem to have less relevance in a book about postcolonial authorship, they do make important contributions to debates on intellectualism and the author's authority pertinent to the postcolonial field'.
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Epigraphs:
- Would that I could follow your advice, my dear Anya .. But alas, it is a collection of opinions I am committed to, not a memoir. A response to the present in which I find myself. - Diary of a Bad Year
- I am immensely uncomfortable with questions ... that call upon me to answer for (in two senses) my novels, and my responses are often taken as evasive ... my difficulty is precisely with the project of stating positions, taking positions. - Doubling the Point
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This article also discusses Coetzee's The Lives of Animals which is outside the scope of AustLit.
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Coetzee's Acts of Genre in the Later Works: Truth-Telling, Fiction and the Public Intellectual
Subjects:
- Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons 2003 single work novel
- Diary of a Bad Year 2007 single work novel
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