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Title: Ethics and Politics of Trauma in J.M. Coetzee's Post-Apartheid Fiction
Authors: Chudal, Narayan Prasad
Keywords: Coetzee’s narrativization
Issue Date: 24-Mar-2019
Abstract: This dissertation concentrates and examines Coetzee’s narrativization of trauma in four of his major novels written in the post-apartheid era—The Age of Iron (1990), The Master of Petersburg (1994), Disgrace (1999), and Elizabeth Costello (2003). While Age of Iron narrativizes the trauma of Mrs Curren due to the horrors of the apartheid, The Master of Petersburg captures the trauma of apartheid-like Tsarist Russia, premature death of a son, and the disgrace of having imagined raping a fourteen year old girl. The trauma of disgrace both for the South African blacks and whites receives a full-fledged treatment in Disgrace. Similarly, Elizabeth Costello, written in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, reveals the trauma of human cruelty to animals as well as the holocaust. These novels cumulatively constitute a crucial site for bearing witness to the suffering engendered by the apartheid regime of South Africa or apartheid-like regime of the Nazism and/or the Tsarist Russia through inventing new forms of mourning and community.
URI: http://103.69.125.248:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/497
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