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  • Reading Coetzee's Women

    Edición de Sue Kossew, Melinda Harvey ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world’s most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central issue of how Coetzee’s texts address the ‘woman question’. There is a focus on Coetzee’s representation of women, engagement with women writers and ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee

    J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking the Victim

    Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on the international field of violence studies to investigate how Australian women writers challenge the ... Leer más

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  • Strong Opinions

    J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction

    This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the human self in a posthumanist setting by consciously revealing the literary ... Leer más

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    de Sue Kossew ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity has been constructed through national stereotypes and representations. This book describes and ... Leer más

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