Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Whiteness and Dogs in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Dilan Z. Smida Reihe: Postcolonial Posthumanism
Englisch
Paperback, 112 Seiten
140 x 205mm
978-3-96042-023-1 / 2-973
16,00 Euro
Erscheinungstermin: 06/2018
Reihe: Postcolonial Posthumanism
Englisch
Paperback, 112 Seiten
140 x 205mm
978-3-96042-023-1 / 2-973
16,00 Euro
Erscheinungstermin: 06/2018

Inhalt

With Disgrace set in 1997, only few years after the Apartheid regime was officially levered out Coetzee presents a bleak scenery of persisting and often violent negotiations over power structures which are the pivotal point of postcolonial and ecocritical studies. Authoring fictional realism out of such a historical laden context Coetzee negotiates power constructions over perceptions of the Self and Other: white and Black, man and womanhood, culture and nature, human and animal. Here, the localization of the protagonist as yet another representative agent of the system of inequality adds further to the oppressive literary canon of South Africa. Yet, the book’s analysis of the novel exceeds the reading of the literary protagonist as a product of a colonial past by levelling a broader criticism of the text that concentrates on the monologic narrative structures that perpetuate these distorted colonial, patriarchal and racial power structures. Thus, the author‘s positioning in a historical and political context must be dismantled as a literary arrogance to persist colonial traditions of representation.


Autorin & Reihe

Dilan Z. Smida — Dilan Z. Smida obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language at the University of Bayreuth and currently studies Literature and Media MA. Mehr Infos

Postcolonial Posthumanism — The book series Postcolonial Posthumanisms, edited by Susan Arndt and Weeraya Donsomsakulkij delves into thinking beyond the dogma of binaries. Mehr Infos

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