Disgrace

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Kompromiss im Grauen – Zur Differenzierung der Kolonialismuskritik in J.M. Coetzees Romanen “Waiting for the Barbarians”, “Foe” und “Disgrace” (German Edition)


Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik – Literatur, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Seminar für Englische Philologie), Veranstaltung: Zulassungsarbeit Staatsexamen (Lehramt Gymnasien), 47 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The notion that the colonial experiences at the Heart of Africa a void which would seem to penetrate every level of existence, from the biological to the metaphysical, is hardly foreign to him [Coetzee]. (Watson 1986: 371) Um diese koloniale Erfahrung, die den Kolonisatoren und den Kolonisierten durch und durch durchdringen, sowohl psychisch als auch physisch, geht es in J.M. Coetzees Romanen. In den drei zu besprechenden Romanen Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe und Disgrace zeigt sich, dass sich die Kolonialismuspolitik und die damit einhergehende, implizite Kritik sich gleich einem roten Faden durch seine Fiktion zieht. Coetzee ist “a white South African writer engaged with the legacy of colonialism” (Head 1997: iii). In seinen Romanen bezieht Coetzee zwar keine explizite Stellung zur südafrikanischen Situation oder zur weltweiten postkolonialen Situation, aber trotz seiner apolitischen Haltung können die Texte als Deutungen des Kolonialismus gelesen werden, die dadurch weitreichender sind als die herkömmlichen Stellungnahmen politisch engagierter Schriftsteller. So ist bei Coetzee “the actual critique of colonialism [...] hardly conventional” (Watson 1986: 371). Ziel der Arbeit ist, den Kompromiss im Grauen und die Differenzierung der Kolonialismus-kritik in J.M. Coetzees Romanen Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Foe (1986) und Disgrace (1999) aufzuzeigen. Hierbei soll wie folgt vorgegangen werden. I. bis IV. bilden den theoretischen Teil als thematischen Kontext der Romane. (…)
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The Dilemmas of South African Reality: A Study of J M Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K


The main objective of this study is to highlight the dilemmas posed by the malevolent policy of apartheid. The study aims to highlight the broad-term effects of the policy of apartheid not only on the socio-political and historical arenas of South Africa but also on the literature produced during the era of apartheid. The study aims to give a comprehensive exposé of the authoritative regime of apartheid and its evil manifestations. Above all, the study aims to show how Coetzee highlights, interrogates and castigates the colonial practices and constructed power structures and how far Coetzee succeeds in fulfilling the intellectual commitment of highlighting the socio-political dilemmas engendered by the malevolent beast of apartheid. Moreover, the study aims to analyze the various postcolonial and postmodern strategies that the writer takes recourse to in order to dismantle and deconstruct.
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Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel


First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.
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J.M. Coetzee and the limits of language.(‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ ‘Disgrace’, Jean Amery and ‘At the Mind’s Limits’)(Critical essay): An article from: Journal of Literary Studies

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Title: J.M. Coetzee and the limits of language.(‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ ‘Disgrace’, Jean Amery and ‘At the Mind’s Limits’)(Critical essay)
Author: Carrol Clarkson
Publication: Journal of Literary Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2009
Publisher: Literator Society of South Africa
Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Page: 106(19)

Article Type: Critical essay

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Philip Glass: Waiting for the Barbarians


Philip Glass’ 2005 opera, Waiting for the Barbarians is based on the 1980 novel by Nobel Prize winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace, Life & Times of Michael K) with a libretto by Academy-Award winning playwright Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement). Waiting for the Barbarians is a harrowing allegory of the war between oppressors and the oppressed. The protagonist is a loyal civil servant who conscientiously runs the affairs of a tiny frontier garrison town, ignoring the threat of impending war with the so-called barbarians, a neighboring tribe of nomads. But with the arrival of a special unit of the Civil Guard spreading the rumor that the barbarians are preparing to attack, he becomes witness to the cruel and illegal treatment of prisoners of war. Torture is used to obtain confessions from the barbarian prisoners, thus “proving” the necessity of the planned campaign against the tribe. Jolted into sympathy for the victims, the old man decides to take a stand. He attempts to maintain a final shred of decency and dignity by bringing home a barbarian girl, crippled by torture and nearly blind, and subsequently returning her to her people – an act of individual amends. This dangerous act brands him forever as a traitor after which he himself becomes a victim of public humiliation and torture.
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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)


A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the “barbarians.”
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