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Hania A. M. Nashef Hania A. M. Nashef i(A140237 works by)
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1 J M Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy : A Search for Answers Hania A. M. Nashef , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Writing : Text and Reception in Southern Africa , vol. 35 no. 1 2023; (p. 43-51)

'The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The Childhood of Jesus (2013), and then The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), presents us with unreal worlds, leaving us searching for meaning. This fable-like fantasy, which expands the author’s ‘late style’, challenges the genre of fiction itself. Typical of late style, the trilogy resists closure and resolution. The debated ideas are generated by characters who were forced to forsake their memories and histories. Even though the protagonists begin to embody the very ideas they debate, answers are not forthcoming.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee Hania A. M. Nashef , New York (City) : Routledge , 2009 Z1781914 2009 single work criticism 'In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee's work, no detailed study has been made of this area of concern especially with respect to how pervasive it is across Coetzee's literary output to date. This study examines what J.M. Coetzee's novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual--namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and senseless waiting--and how these conditions can lead to the alienation and marginalization of the individual' (Publisher's blurb)
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