Author: John Bolin, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Exeter - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID

Contents:

	Acknowledgements (p. viii)
	Abbreviations (p. ix)
	Introduction (p. 1)
	1 - ‘The Africa Within’ (p. 15)
	2 - ‘The Congeries That I Bless with the Name of Evil’ (p. 32)
	3 - ‘A Question without an Answer’ (p. 57)
	4 - ‘A New Kind of Man’ (p. 82)
	5 - ‘The Power of Blackness’ (p. 112)
	6 - A Secular ‘State of Grace’? (p. 139)
	7 - ‘No Moral Defense’ (p. 160)
	8 - ‘Subjugation, Execution, Then Devouring’ (p. 184)
	Conclusion (p. 210)
	Bibliography (p. 214)
	Index (p. 225)

Description: »J. M. Coetzee is widely recognized as one of the most important writers working in English. As a South African (now Australian) novelist composing his best-known works in the latter third of the twentieth century, Coetzee has understandably often been read through the lenses of postcolonial theory and post-war ethics. Yet his reception is entering a new phase bolstered by thousands of pages of new and unpublished empirical evidence housed at the J. M. Coetzee archive at The Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas, Austin). This material provokes a re-reading of Coetzee's project even as it uncovers keys to his process of formal experimentation and compositional evolution up to and including Disgrace (1999). Following Coetzee's false starts, his confrontation of narrative impasses, and his shifting deployment of source materials, J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel provides a new series of detailed snapshots of one of the world's most celebrated authors.« (Source: Cambridge University Press)

Reviews: Graham, Lucy V. Modern Fiction Studies 72(3) (Fall 2026): 630-633. - Full Text: Project MUSE (Free Access)

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