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Title:The politics of shame and redemption in J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace'
Author:Kossew, SueISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Research in African Literatures
Volume:34
Issue:2
Pages:155-162
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:literature
About person:John Maxwell Coetzee (1940-)ISNI
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v034/34.2kossew.pdf
Abstract:J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace' is a complex exploration of the collision between private and public worlds; intellect and body; desire and love; and public disgrace or shame and the idea of individual grace or salvation. Set in a recognizably postapartheid South Africa, it is also concerned with what David Attwell and Barbara Harlow (2000) have called 'the refashioning of identities caught between stasis and change'. The present paper explores some of these aspects of the novel. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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