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'Place in J.M. Coetzee's writing is seldom just home, in any comfortable sense, nor is there the process of re-familiarization that one finds in so much postcolonial writing that answers metropolitan representations of colonial space. On the contrary, place in Coetzee is a site of epistemological dualisms, of failed self/other relationships, of incommensurability, of aesthetic destruction: "too much truth for art to hold" (Doubling 99). Intimacy and detachment, in equal measure, in Coetzee's relationship with South Africa: that is the dynamic I wish to explore in this essay.' (p.229)
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This article deals with a range of Coetzee's novels, published before and after his arrival in Australia.
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http://novel.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/41/2-3/229
Coetzee's Estrangements
Novel : A Forum on Fiction
Subjects:
- Diary of a Bad Year 2007 single work novel
- Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons 2003 single work novel
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cSouth Africa,cSouthern Africa, Africa,
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