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Metaphysical exile : on J.M. Coetzee's Jesus fictions
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ISBN: 9780197565940 9780197565964 9780197565971 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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J. M. Coetzee's poetics of the child : Arendt, Agamben, and the (ir)responsibilities of literary creation
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ISBN: 9781350138421 1350138428 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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Metafiction and the postwar novel : foes, ghosts, and faces in the water
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ISBN: 9780192644817 0192644815 9780198871408 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view thestakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self of writing' and the 'public author as signature'.Across three comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet Frame, drawswidely from her fictions, autobiographies, and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early receptionled to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.


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Metafiction and the postwar novel: foes, ghosts, and faces in the water
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ISBN: 9780198871408 0198871406 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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'Metafiction and the Postwar Novel' is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career.


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South African London
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ISBN: 1526148544 1526148560 9781526148544 9781526148568 1526148552 9781526148551 Year: 2021 Publisher: Manchester

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This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.

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