M.J. Marais

Bio: M.J. Marais is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metafiction. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

The deployment of metafiction in an aesthetic of engagement in J.M. Coetzee's Foe

Abstract: Summary In this article it is argued that, in Foe, Coetzee achieves a synthesis of overt metanovelistic practice with engagement ‐ two modes conventionally held to be antagonistic. By means of various metafictional devices, Coetzee establishes an equivalence between the relations of father/child, author/character, master/slave, reader/text and subject/object ‐thus presenting a critique which exposes the linguistic base of various forms of political domination, and which politicizes both the act of writing and the act of reading.