J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. Taking the author’s ethical writing as its theme, the volume...
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This collection of writings looks at how the Nobel Laureate has navigated the tricky waters of being a public intellectual in the contentious world he inhabits, which touches on racism, sexism, animal rights, ecofeminism, and contemporary literature.
J. M. Coetzee in conversation with Jane Poyner211The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J. M. Coetzee and the public sphere252The writer, the critic, and the censor : J. M. Coetzee and the question of literature423Against allegory : Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, and the question of literary reading634Death and the space of the response to the other in J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg835A belief in frogs : J. M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction1006J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination1187Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace1358Going to the dogs : humanity in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission1489What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men17210A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals19311Textual transvestism : the female voices of J. M. Coetzee217
