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From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee
One of the notable features of JM Coetzee's work is the portrayal in his novels, particularly in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond...
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| author | Janari, Barbara |
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| description | One of the notable features of JM Coetzee's work is the portrayal in his novels, particularly in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond the political and historical and that adds another dimension to his work. The focus of my dissertation will be an attempt to account for this other 'dimension' within the broader socio-political-historical nexus that informs much of his work. I will argue that this other dimension represents an ongoing conccrn with the questions of redemption and salvation, particularly as they are manifested in his latcr works, Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello. These concerns, however, are not just a consequence of Coetzee's evolving thought. As I will show, they are present in his earlier texts as well. To this end, I will consider the ways in which the themes of redemption and salvation, in the specifically religious and Christian sense of these words, also resonate in In the Heart of the Country (1977) and Life and Times of Michael K (1983). |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8020 From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee Janari, Barbara Watson, Stephen Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-70). One of the notable features of JM Coetzee's work is the portrayal in his novels, particularly in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond the political and historical and that adds another dimension to his work. The focus of my dissertation will be an attempt to account for this other 'dimension' within the broader socio-political-historical nexus that informs much of his work. I will argue that this other dimension represents an ongoing conccrn with the questions of redemption and salvation, particularly as they are manifested in his latcr works, Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello. These concerns, however, are not just a consequence of Coetzee's evolving thought. As I will show, they are present in his earlier texts as well. To this end, I will consider the ways in which the themes of redemption and salvation, in the specifically religious and Christian sense of these words, also resonate in In the Heart of the Country (1977) and Life and Times of Michael K (1983). 2014-10-03T12:47:56Z 2014-10-03T12:47:56Z 2005 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8020 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-70). Janari, Barbara From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| title_full | From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| title_fullStr | From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| title_full_unstemmed | From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| title_short | From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee |
| title_sort | from race to grace the other j m coetzee |
| topic | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-70). |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8020 |
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