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Coetzee’s Foe and Borges: An Intertextual Reading
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Coetzee's "Foe" as mentioned in this paper is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions.Abstract:
Foe (1986) is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions. This essay p...read more
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Coetzee and Borges: the Southern Connections
TL;DR: Coetzee as mentioned in this paper discussed the development of his ideas about the notion of the real South or "real South", as opposed to the "mythic South", through a brief analysis of Borges's tale "El Sur" [The South] and Coetzee's novel Disgrace.
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Postcolonial temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986)
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors consider the temporality of J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) for what it suggests about the demands of authorship and copyright in the postcolonial present.
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Intertextuality and the Collaborative Construction of Narrative: J. M. Coetzee's Foe
TL;DR: The most exhaustive account of these possibilities is Gerard Genettes Palimpsests, which, as Seymour Chatman observes, "sifts eruditely through literary tradition" (269) to produce a detailed taxonomy of what Genette calls "literature in the second degree" including hypertexts.
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The Noise of Freedom: J. M. Coetzee's Foe
TL;DR: The Noise of Freedom: J. M. Coetzee's Foe as discussed by the authors, a novel about the war against apartheid in South Africa, is a classic example of such a novel.
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Displacing the Voice: South African Feminism and JM Coetzee's Female Narrators
TL;DR: In her now famous essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" as discussed by the authors, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims that if the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the sub-altern femal...
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"Lost in the Maze of Doubting": J. M. Coetzee's Foe and the Politics of (Un)Likeness
TL;DR: In a life of writing books, I have often, believe me, been lost in the maze of doubting and the trick I have learned is to plant a sign or marker in the ground where I stand, so that in my future wanderings I shall have something to return to, and not get worse lost than I am.