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Article: The community of sentient beings: J.M. Coetzee's ecology in Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello.(Critical essay)
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- English Studies in Canada
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- March 1, 2007
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COETZEE'S ECOLOGY arises in relation to one of the most troubling suggestions in the fiction of his later career. Already in Disgrace (1999), but still more starkly and disturbingly in Elizabeth Costello (2002), the modern human community associates itself with a normalization of atrocity; indeed, atrocity seems to situate itself at the very core of the modern. Coetzee's writing registers and then counters this atrocious modernity by opening and extending the ethical bounds of human community, by envisioning animals as fellow beings deserving the consideration and protection that more typically are accorded only to the human being. This extension of entitlement, however, ...
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Article: Elizabeth Costello
The Village Voice;
October 29, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... we read and write ELIZABETH COSTELLO By J.M. Coetzee Viking, 230 pp ... from South Africa, Coetzee left for Australia. His new book, Elizabeth Costello, is a cold little ... s a mouthpiece for Coetzee's own lectures ...
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