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  title info:
    title: J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human
    sub title: Posthumanism and Narrative Form
  name:
    name part: Wiegandt, Kai.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 280 p. online resource.
  abstract: "Kai Wiegandt's study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee's revision of our core ideas of the human-not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasively analyses the careful ways through which Coetzee deploys narrative as a mode of thinking through such human and post-human questions, so developing a fresh and original approach Wiegandt calls 'anthropological realism'. Drawing on thinkers from across the French, German and Anglophone traditions, Wiegandt has produced a fiercely insightful and committedly interdisciplinary study." - Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford "J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human offers a bold and compelling argument that is sure to make a serious intervention in Coetzee criticism. Wiegandt introduces several new fields of enquiry in relation to Coetzee's fiction; the discussions thus reframe well-worn debates in an innovative way, making for unexpected insights in seemingly familiar critical terrain. The book opens up a valuable and thought-provoking perspective on Coetzee's work, and will be of particular interest to the philosophically-minded Coetzee specialist." - Carrol Clarkson, Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature, University of Amsterdam "Tracking skilfully across the shifting terrain of J. M. Coetzee's fictions, Kai Wiegandt draws out their philosophical and literary intertexts in this lucid, erudite and compelling book, and thereby illuminates a fundamental concern that has persisted throughout Coetzee's career: to probe and push our ideas of what it is to be human." - Jarad Zimbler, author of J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style This study argues that the most consistent concern in Coetzee's oeuvre is the question of what makes us human. Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revise…
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Method and Matter of the Revisions: Coetzee's Posthumanist Poetic -- 3. From De-Humanisation to the Minimal Human: Dusklands -- 4. The Human, the Animal and the Body- 5. Humanity and Collectivity: Nation, State, and Community -- 6. Epilogue.
  note: by Kai Wiegandt.
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: African literature
  subject:
    topic: Poststructuralism
  subject:
    topic: Africa-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonial/World Literature
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  subject:
    topic: African Literature
  subject:
    topic: Poststructuralism
  subject:
    topic: African Politics
  classification: PN441-1009.5
  classification: 809
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29306-2
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