Variations on a Frontier: J.M. Coetzee’s Novel Dusklands in Context
J.M. Coetzee’s first novel Dusklands has often been read into and against the South African context of its production, and has therefore often been misread, and its stylistic and literary specificities overlooked. A reversal of perspective will instead try to prove how, via a series of textual trope...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | J.M. Coetzee’s first novel Dusklands has often been read into and against the South African context of its production, and has therefore often been misread, and its stylistic and literary specificities overlooked. A reversal of perspective will instead try to prove how, via a series of textual tropes and extra-textual (mainly pictorial) displacements, the book better undermines the notions of border and frontier lying at the core of the apartheid regime of the early 1970s. |
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