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This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawe? Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Towards the Embodied Fiction of J. M. Coetzee Chapter 1. Disabled Textuality: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country
Chapter 2. Scopic Regimes, Haptic Commitments: Countering Ocularnormativism in Waiting for the Barbarians
Chapter 3. Eco-Ability and Narrative Violence in Life & Times of Michael K
Chapter 4. Mute Letters: Against Phonocentrism in Foe
Chapter 5. Impossible Modalities, Ailing Selves: Illness, Metaphor and Selfhood in Age of Iron
Chapter 6. Disability Ethics and Gothic Form in The Master of Petersburg
Chapter 7. Dismodernism and Forms of Dependency in Slow Man
Chapter 8. What is the World Coming to? Senility, Illness and Irony in the Costello Fictions and Diary of a Bad Year
Chapter 9. Negative Capabilities: Illness Narrative as Bibliotherapy in the Jesus Novels
Epilogue: Positive Incapabilities
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