Postmetaphysical Literature: Reflections on J. M. Coetzee's<i>Disgrace</i>

Kochin, Michael S.

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“…Michael S. Kochin (2004), in his "Postmetaphysical Literature: Reflections on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace," argues that Disgrace seemingly is a novel "about endings": the end of romance, the end of humanity, the end of grace, and more (p. 4). Kochin, however, claims that Disgrace in reality is "a novel of beginnings and not just endings," and has a postmetaphysical tilt to it, because the novel proposes "an indefinable hope, a hope that something is coming up in the postcolonial world of South Africa" (2004, pp.…”

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Reaching Across Borderlines: Collected Essays from the UNCW-IIUI D.O.S. Partnership

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Closure in J. M. Coetzee’sDisgrace

Dibavar

Abbasi

Pirnajmuddin

2019

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This article explores the politics of J. M. Coetzee’s writing style in Disgrace. Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s theory of textual universe and Barbara Dancygier’s narrative space construction strategies, we argue that Coetzee’s narrative is set up to expose David Lurie’s deliberately distorted self-representation. Indeed, the conflict between the protagonist’s private worlds and the textual actual world (TAW) results from the protagonist’s distorting of the TAW by his deliberately distorted self-representation clouding his judgment and, accordingly, his so-called knowledge worlds (K-worlds). Also discussed is the process through which the protagonist is brought to a reckoning – not grace – through ontological re-orientation by undergoing a three-step process of social stigmatization, recognizing his vulnerability and situatedness, and coming to terms with his actual environment (TAW).

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A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee'sDisgrace

Gal

2008

African Identities

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This article aims to join a growing number of studies which examine how animals, especially dogs, are used in J.M. Coetzee's celebrated novel Disgrace (2000). Disgrace exposes in a unique manner the connections between the moral issues of animal rights and the ethical issues of the post-apartheid state. By focusing on the role of animals not as metaphors but rather as characters in the novel, as real as its human characters, the article reveals parallel motifs shared by humans and animals, such as sacrifice and grief. In this way the novel allows the Eurocentric white protagonist David Lurie to regain his moral legitimacy. The animal, therefore, is used here as a surrogate medium which, by its innate innocence, displaces white guilt and racial violence into moral privilege in the field of animal welfare.

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Postmetaphysical Literature: Reflections on J. M. Coetzee'sDisgrace

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Reaching Across Borderlines: Collected Essays from the UNCW-IIUI D.O.S. Partnership

Reaching Across Borderlines: Collected Essays from the UNCW-IIUI D.O.S. Partnership

Closure in J. M. Coetzee’sDisgrace

A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee'sDisgrace

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A note on the use of animals for remapping victimhood in J.M. Coetzee'sDisgrace

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