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Teresa Dovey

Bio: Teresa Dovey is an academic researcher from University of Melbourne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Allegory & Postmodernism. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 12 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the allegorical mode of Coetzee's novels is situated in the context of contemporary constructions of allegory, and it is suggested that allegory constitutes a paradigm for interpretive practice.
Abstract: Summary In this paper the allegorical mode of Coetzee's novels is situated in the context of contemporary constructions of allegory. This is done by tracing the points of intersection between Waiting for the Barbarians and those theories of allegory produced by contemporary readings of Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama, by Paul de Man in “The Rhetoric of Temporality”, and by Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. It is suggested that allegory constitutes a paradigm for interpretive practice, and that in Waiting for the Barbarians a “Benjaminian” mode of allegorical perception acts as a corrective to an “Hegelian” mode of allegorical perception, which tends to offer definitive meanings and to posit a relatively stable connection between the allegorical signifier and extra‐textual reality.

6 citations

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TL;DR: Coetzee as discussed by the authors presented a reading of the novel Foe as allegory, with the figure of Susan Barton representing certain positions in feminist discourse, Cruso representing postcolonial discourse from the position of the colonizer, and Friday's muteness representing the impossibility of a pure, original discourse on the part of colonized.
Abstract: Summary This paper is a condensed version of the final chapter of The Novels of J.M. Coetzee: Lacanian Allegories. It was to have been presented at the seminar on Foe in March 1988, prior to the publication of the book in July 1988. It offers a reading of the novel, Foe, as allegory, with the figure of Susan Barton representing certain positions in feminist discourse, Cruso representing postcolonial discourse from the position of the colonizer, and Friday's muteness representing the impossibility of a pure, original discourse on the part of the colonized. Feminist, postcolonial and postmodern discourses have in common the problem of speaking as Other, of representing the self as Other to various dominant discourses. In Foe Coetzee would appear to borrow strategies for figuring radical Otherness from both feminist and postcolonial discourse, while exploring the contradictions inherent in these strategies. Postmodernism offers strategies of intervention and evasion necessary to white South African writers, ...

6 citations


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TL;DR: The authors discusses the international reception of the fiction of South African novelist and critic, J. M. Coetzee, in order to examine the institutional and rhetorical conventions which shaped the selection and circulation of particular forms of writing as exemplars of 'South African literature' from the 1970s through to the 1990s.
Abstract: This paper discusses the international reception of the fiction of South African novelist and critic, J. M. Coetzee, in order to examine the institutional and rhetorical conventions which shaped the selection and circulation of particular forms of writing as exemplars of 'South African literature' from the 1970s through to the 1990s. The representation of Coetzee's novels in two reading-formations is critically addressed: in non-academic literary reviews; and in the emergent academic paradigm of post-colonial literary theory. It is argued that in both cases, South African literary writing has often been re-inscribed into new contexts according to abstract and moralised understandings of the nature of apartheid.

35 citations

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8 citations

01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the concept of parody through three novels, Friday or the Other Island, Vendredi ou la Vie Sauvage and Foe, rewriting Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Abstract: This thesis examines the concept of parody through three novels, Friday or the Other Island, Vendredi ou la Vie Sauvage and Foe, rewriting Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. I focus more specifically on the character of the island as the metaphor of the process of rewriting, and I argue that the multiple rewrites shape an archipelago. I apply Linda Hutcheon’s critical work A Theory of Parody to show how the island’s paradoxical aspect illustrates the parody’s paradoxical aspect: it is constrained – the island is isolated and the parody is forced to follow a literary format or pattern, but not

8 citations

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TL;DR: From the resource curse perspective, this paper investigated how Tunde Kelani's twin-movies, Saworoide and Agogo-Eewo, explored the vulnerability of leaders in natural-resource dependent state to...
Abstract: From the resource curse perspective, this article investigated how Tunde Kelani’s twin-movies, Saworoide and Agogo-Eewo, explored the vulnerability of leaders in natural-resource dependent state to...

6 citations