Reading Coetzee's Women

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kossew, Sue (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Harvey, Melinda (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; African literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; African Literature.

This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee's texts address...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: J. M. Coetzee and the Woman Question
• Chapter 2: He and his Woman: Passing Performances and Coetzee's Dialogic Drag
• Chapter 3: Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Costello: Coetzee's Female Characters and the Limits of the Sympathetic Imagination
• Chapter 4: 'A New Footing': Re-Reading the Barbarian Girl in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
• Chapter 5: Art and the Female in Youth: Between Joyce and Beckett
• Chapter 6: 'Beauty does not own itself': Coetzee's Feminist Critique of Platonic and Kantian Aesthetics
• Chapter 7: J. M. Coetzee and the Women of the Canon
• Chapter 8: Robinsonaden in the Feminine? Coetzee's Foe and Muriel Spark's Robinson
• Chapter 9: The Fixation on the Womb and the Ambiguity of the Mother in Life & Times of Michael K
• Chapter 10: 'God knows whether there is a Dulcinea in this world or not': Idealised Passion and Undecidable Desire in J. M. Coetzee
• Chapter 11: Seeing where others see nothing: Coetzee's Magda, Cassandra in the Karoo
• Chapter 12: Reading Coetzee Expectantly: From Magda to Lucy
• Chapter 13: Women's Knowledge and Women's Frank Speech in J. M. Coetzee's Summertime
• Chapter 14: On beyond the representational binary: Coetzee (and the women) take wing.