- Title
- Versions of hospitality in recent writing on the fiction of JM Coetzee:
- Creator
- Marais, Mike
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144039
- Identifier
- vital:38305
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.4314/eia.v40i1.8
- Description
- In one of the interviews in Summertime, Martin, a former colleague, claims that he and the deceased John Coetzee felt their "presence" in South Africa "was legal but illegitimate," that it "was grounded in a crime, namely colonial conquest," which rendered them "sojourners, temporary residents, and to that extent without a home, without a homeland" (209-10). With this statement in mind, Maria J. Lopez argues that a sense of unbelonging underlies J. M. Coetzee's entire oeuvre, including the Australian fiction, and forms a kind of "imaginative and intellectual masterplot" (xii). ). It is this "narrative" that she traces in her monograph, starting with the early fiction and concluding with chapters on the fictionalised autobiographies and Australian fiction.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa, Marais, M., 2013. Versions of hospitality in recent writing on the fiction of JM Coetzee. English in Africa, 40(1). pp.79-95., English in Africa volume 40 number 1 161 171 May 2013 0376-8902
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