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By Jane Poyner

In her research of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee's literary and highbrow profession, Jane Poyner illuminates the author's abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the "paradox of postcolonial authorship". Writers of moral sense or conscience-stricken writers of the sort Coetzee portrays, when striving symbolically to convey the tales of the marginal and the oppressed to mild, consistently threat reimposing the very authority they search to problem. From Dusklands to Diary of a foul 12 months, Poyner strains how Coetzee rehearses and revises his knowing of the ethics of intellectualism in parallel with the emergence of the "new South Africa". She contends that Coetzee's modernist aesthetics facilitate a extra exacting critique of the issues that encumber postcolonial authorship, together with the authority it unavoidably engenders. Poyner is responsive to the methods Coetzee's writing addresses the writer's right position with recognize to the altering moral calls for of up to date political existence. Theoretically subtle and obtainable, her booklet is an important contribution to our figuring out of the Nobel Laureate and to postcolonial studies.

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