Perspectives on Southern Africa

by David Attwell

Book Overview

David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's writing reconstructs and critiques some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520078101
• ISBN13: 9780520078109
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.