{"product_id":"j-m-coetzee-and-the-archive-9781350230446","title":"J.M. Coetzee and the Archive","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee''s \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e.  Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee''s early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work  (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence.   Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice.  It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and sugges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. M. Coetzee \u0026amp; the Archive\u003c\/i\u003e is the first edited collection to focus explicitly on Coetzee’s archive. By turns informative, revelatory, thought-provoking, and inspiring, the essays and “conversations” in this volume broach new ways of engaging with Coetzee’s corpus, and contribute to current theoretical debates about “the archival turn” in literary-critical studies. * Carrol Clarkson, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/b\u003eKai Easton , Marc Farrant  \u0026amp; Hermann Wittenberg  \u003cb\u003eI. Authorship and \u003ci\u003eAutre\u003c\/i\u003e-biography \u003c\/b\u003e 1. Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) – ‘Landmarks: Reading Coetzee’s Maternal Lines’  2. Shaun Irlam (University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA) – ‘\u003ci\u003eSummertime \u003c\/i\u003eSadness: Coetzee, coordinates \u0026amp; negation of the archive’   3. Valeria Mosca (Independent Scholar) – ‘On the Loss of Fathers and Letters: reading \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Childhood of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e alongside Jacques Derrida’s \u003ci\u003eArchive Fever’  \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eII.  History, Politics \u0026amp; the Archive \u003c\/b\u003e 4. Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary University of London, UK) – ‘Writing, Politics, Position: Coetzee and Gordimer in and out of the archive’   5. Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)– ‘Out of the Dark Chamber: violence, desire and the late apartheid state in the textual history of \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e’  \u003cb\u003eIII: Archival Methods: Practice, Data, Process \u003c\/b\u003e 6. Peter Johnston (Cambridge Assessment, UK) - ‘Humming with fear of sincerity and fabulator’: first observations from the Coetzee corpus and the Coetzee bot   7. Michael Green (Northumbria University, UK) – ‘On Reflection: Coetzee, the archive, and practice research’   \u003cb\u003eIV.  On Literary Objects: Form and Style in the Archive \u003c\/b\u003e 8. David Isaacs (Independent Scholar) – ‘Archival Realism: \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e and the realm of revision’   9. Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyrpus) – ‘In Pursuit of Style: Coetzee reading Beckett in the archive’   \u003cb\u003eV.  Philosophy and the Archive: Between Life and Truth \u003c\/b\u003e 10. Marc Farrant (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - ‘The Aura of Truth’: Coetzee’s archive, realism, and the question of literary authority’   11. Richard A. Barney (University of Albany, SUNY, USA) – ‘Coetzee, biopolitics, and the archive of impersonality’  12. Russell Samolsky (UC Santa Barbara, USA) – ‘Shades of the Archive: J. M. Coetzee, the paradox of poetic sovereignty, and the lives of literary beings’  \u003cb\u003eVI.  Conversations with Coetzee \u003c\/b\u003e 13. Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) – ‘Curating Coetzee: from Austin to Adelaide’  14. Richard Mosse (Artist, Ireland) – \u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eIncoming\/Waiting for the Barbarians’  15. Kai Easton (SOAS, UK) – ’34** South’","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019641422167,"sku":"9781350230446","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350230446.jpg?v=1750780880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/j-m-coetzee-and-the-archive-9781350230446","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}