TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angela Müller
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653065572
TI  - «Autre»-Biography
T2  - Poetics of Self in J. M. Coetzee’s Fictionalized Memoirs
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06557-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050079
N2  - This study explores the poetics and politics of self in J. M. Coetzee’s «autre»-biographical works «Scenes from Provincial Life». The author provides a detailed analysis of Coetzee’s conception of self in his fictionalized memoirs, as well as of philosophical, aesthetic and political implications of «autre»-biography. She reads these works as literary figurations of an estranged self, maintaining that they engage with deeply historical but also universal questions of the relation between self and power. Coetzee’s fictionalized memoirs, she argues, are thus not merely dramatizations of the inherent elusiveness of the self but a critique of systems and discourses of normativization and oppression.
KW  - Selfhood, Authorship, Alienation, Apartheid, South Africa
LA  - English
ER  -