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Article: Materiality and the madness of reading: J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello as post-apartheid text *.
- Article from:
- Journal of Literary Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Summary
Unlike the "situational metafiction" (Attwell 1993: 20) of J.M Coetzee's earlier novels, whose imbrication in the political matrix of the late-apartheid State has become a matter of critical orthodoxy, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) rejects a South African emplacement for its writer-protagonist and hereby seems to suspend questions relating to the positioning of this work within post-apartheid literary culture. Coetzee's privileging of the transcultural, or formal aesthetic, dimensions of the work ratifies the normative exclusion of the historical master-narrative in the name of universalism (Butler 2000). Yet, for all that it defensively ...
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