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Synopsis
Since it first appeared in 1988, JM Coetzee s first volume of criticism, White Writing, has emerged as an indispensable reference in the study of South African literature. In the seven essays comprising the collection, he reads a range of texts, in various genres, which represent the endeavours of white writers to come to terms with the South African landscape and their tenuous place within it. Their projects, Coetzee argues, are vexed by the various ways in which the South African context resists the writers schema of representation, and their efforts at its domestication. South Africa simply will not conform to their desire for a new Eden or to their demand for a rustic idyll, and it is in the forge of their estrangement that much early white South African literature was created. The seven essays concern a wide range of works written in both English and Afrikaans. Among others, the nineteenth-century travel writing of William Burchell, which compares the landscapes of England and South Africa, always to the latter s detriment, is discussed in relation to subsequent engagements by Thomas Pringle, WEG Louw, WC Scully and Roy Campbell. This leads on to a study of the plaasroman and its precursors, culminating in a chapter concerning the novels of the prolific and popular, CM van den Heever.
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About the Author
J.M. Coetze is a multiple prize winner. He has won the Booker Price twice, for Life and Times of Michael K in 1983 and again for Disgrace in 1999, but has also been awarded, among others, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Waiting for the Barbarians), the Irish Times International Fiction Prize (The Master of Petersburg), the CNA Prize on three different occasions and the Commonwealth Literary Award. In 2003, Coetzee became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On the 27th of September 2005, he was awarded the Order Mapungubwe by the South African government in recognitioin of his 'exceptional contribution in the field of literature and for putting South Africa on the world stage.' Coetzee is now resident in Australia
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- PublisherPentz Publishers
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0980270006
- ISBN 13 9780980270006
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages195
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