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With the publication of Age of Iron--winner of Britain's richest fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year for 1990--J. M. Coetzee is now recognized as one of the foremost writers of our day. In this timely study of Coetzee's fiction, Susan Gallagher places his work in the context of South African history and politics. Her close historical readings of Coetzee's six major novels explore how he lays bare the "dense complicity between thought and language" in South Africa. Following a penetrating description of the unique difficulties facing writers under apartheid, Gallagher recounts how history, language, and authority have been used to marginalize the majority of South Africa's people. Her story reaches from the beginnings of Afrikaner nationalism to the recent past: the Sharpeville massacre, the jailing of Nelson Mandela, and the Soweto uprising. As a result of his rejection of liberal and socialist realism, Coetzee has been branded an escapist, but Gallagher ably defends him from this charge. Her cogent, convincingly argued examination of his novels demonstrates that Coetzee's fictional response is "apocalyptic in the most profound Biblical sense, obscurely pointing toward ineffable realities transcending discursive definition." Viewing Coetzee's fiction in this context, Gallagher describes a new kind of novel "that arises out of history, but also rivals history." This analysis reveals Coetzee's novels to be profound responses to their time and place as well as richly rewarding investigations of the storyteller's art.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation. --- South Africa -- In literature.

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English literature --- Thematology --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation --- South Africa --- In literature --- Coetzee, J. M., - 1940- - Criticism and interpretation --- South Africa - In literature --- COETZEE (JOHN MAXWELL), 1940 --- -CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- Coetzee, J. M., - 1940 --- -South Africa

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"Albert Wertheim's study of Fugard's plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written... This book is aimed not only at teachers, students, scholars, and performers of Fugard but also at the person who simply loves going to see a Fugard play at the theatre." -Nancy Topping Bazin, Eminent Scholar and Professor Emerita, Old Dominion UniversityAthol Fugard is considered one of the most brilliant, powerful, and theatrically astute of modern dramatists. The energy and poignancy of his work have their origins in the institutionalized racism of his native South Africa, and more recently in the issues facing a new South Africa after apartheid. Albert Wertheim analyzes the form and content of Fugard's dramas, showing that they are more than a dramatic chronicle of South African life and racial problems. Beginning with the specifics of his homeland, Fugard's plays reach out to engage more far-reaching issues of human relationships, race and racism, and the power of art to evoke change. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard demonstrates how Fugard's plays enable us to see that what is performed on stage can also be performed in society and in our lives; how, inverting Shakespeare, Athol Fugard makes his stage the world.

Drama --- Dramaturgy --- Authorship --- Playwriting --- Technique. --- Fugard, Athol --- Fugard, Athol Harold Lannigan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- South Africa --- In literature. --- Drama - Technique --- Fugard, Athol - Criticism and interpretation --- Fugard, Athol - Technique --- South Africa - In literature --- Fugard (athol)

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Women and literature --- History --- Smith, Pauline, --- Criticism and interpretation --- South Africa --- In literature --- Fugard, Athol --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Fugard, Athol - Criticism and interpretation --- Fugard, Athol - Criticism and interpretation - Addresses, essays, lectures --- South Africa - In literature --- Women and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century --- Smith, Pauline --- Smith, Pauline, - 1883-1959 - Criticism and interpretation --- Fugard (athol) --- Smith, Pauline, - 1883-1959

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820 "19" GORDIMER, NADINE --- Literature and history --- -Women and literature --- -Literature --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- -History --- -Gordimer, Nadine --- -Гордимер, Надин --- גורדימר, נדין --- Cassirer, Nadine Gordimer --- Gkorntimer, Nantin --- Godimŏ, Nadin --- Criticism and interpretation --- South Africa --- In literature. --- 820 "19" GORDIMER, NADINE Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- South Africa in literature --- -Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--GORDIMER, NADINE --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -History and literature --- Women and literature --- Gordimer, Nadine --- Гордимер, Надин --- Criticism and interpretation.