Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index.
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Father makes merry with children : madness and mythology in Dusklands -- Refusing to "yield to the spectre of reason" : the madwoman in the attic in In the heart of the country -- Madness and civilization in Waiting for the barbarians -- Cultivating the margins in the trial of Michael K : strategies in the service of skepticism -- Bodying forth the other : Friday and the "discursive situation" in Foe -- Writing in the face of death : "false etymologies" and home truths in the Age of iron -- Evading the censor/censoring the self in The master of Petersburg -- Truth and reconciliation in Disgrace -- Coetzee's acts of genre in the later works : truth-telling, fiction and the public intellectual.
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Illuminating J.M. Coetzee's preoccupation, from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, with the paradox of postcolonial authorship centering on the authority authorship engenders, Jane Poyner examines Coetzee's line of author-narrators to trace how he rehearses and revises his understanding of intellectual practice at a time of seismic change in South Africa. Her theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nobel Laureate and to postcolonial studies.
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J.M. Coetzee and the paradox of postcolonial authorship.