J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human Posthumanism and Narrative Form /

• Main Author: Wiegandt, Kai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature .; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; African literature.; Poststructuralism.; Africa-Politics and government.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; African Literature.; African Politics.

"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 an...

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.