Syllabus - ג'.מ. קוטזי: מטא-בדיון פוסטקולוניאלי (44732)

רשימת נושאים / תכנית הלימודים בקורס:
WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS

Week 1 27/10/14
Introduction: Postcolonialism, Metafiction, Apartheid
David Attwell interviews John Coetzee in the wake of the Nobel Prize 2003
http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/an-exclusive-interview-with-j-m-coetzee
Said, Edward
2006 [1978] “Orientalism” in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, 24-27 (London and New York: Routledge).
Waugh, Patricia
1993 (1984) "What is Metafiction and Why Are They Saying Such Awful Things about It," in Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, 1-19 (London and New York: Routledge).

Week 2 03/11/14
Allegory and the struggle; Allegories of struggle
Comparative Primary Texts
Gordimer, Nadine
1976 “A Lion on the Freeway,” Quarry ’76, edited by Lionel Abrahams and Walter Saunders, 185-188 (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker).
Wilhelm, Peter
1975 “Pyro Protram,” in LM and Other Stories , 55-64 (Johannesburg: Ravan).

Secondary Bibliography
Bethlehem, Louise
2001 “’A Primary Need as Strong as Hunger’: The Rhetoric of Urgency in South African Literary Culture Under Apartheid,” Poetics Today 22(2): 365-89.

Week 3 10/11/14
Historical and Literary Contexts
Attwell, David
1993 "Contexts: Literary, Historical, Intellectual" in J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing, 9-34 (Berkeley: University of California Press; Cape Town: David Philip).
Morphet, Tony
2004 “Reading Coetzee in South Africa,” World Literature Today, 78(1), 14-16.
Phillips, Caryl
1998 “Life & Times of John C.” English in Africa 25(1): 61-70.

Optional:
Crewe, Jonathan
2013 “Arrival: J.M. Coetzee in Cape Town,” English in Africa 40(1): 11-35.
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Week 4 17/11/14
Rivalry or Supplementarity
Attwell, David
1991 “’The Labyrinth of My History’: J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 25(1)” 7-32.
Easton, Kai
2006 "Coetzee, the Cape and the Question of History," Scrutiny2 11(1): 5-21.

Week 5 24/11/14
Otherness
Attridge, Derek
2004 "Modernist Form and the Ethics of Otherness: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country" in J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event , 1-31 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press).

Week 6 01/12/14
Into the Dark Chamber
Coetzee, J.M.
1992 “Into the Dark Chamber” in Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, edited by David Attwell, 361-368 (Cambridge: Harvard UP).

Week 7 08/12/14
Body
May, Brian
2001 "J.M. Coetzee and the Question of the Body," Modern Fiction Studies 47(2): 391-420.
Scarry, Elaine
1985 “The Structure of Torture” in The Body in Pain (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Optional
Hill, Shannen
2005 “Iconic Autopsy: Postmortem Portraits of Bantu Stephen Biko” African Arts, September 2005
Valdez Moses, Michael
1993 “The Mark of Empire: Writing, History, and Torture in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians” The Kenyon Review 15(1): 115-127.

Week 8 15/12/14
Agony and Allegory
Saunders, Rebecca
2001 “The Agony and the Allegory” Cultural Critique 47: 215-264

Optional:
Attridge, Derek
2004 “Against Allegory: Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K” in J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press).
Craps, Stef
2007 “J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and the Ethics of Testimony” English Studies 88 (1): 59-66.

Week 9 22/12/14
Liberal Funk
Marais, Mike
2001 “Very morbid phenomena: ‘Liberal Funk’, the ‘Lucy-syndrome’ and JM Coetzee's Disgrace” Scrutiny2 6(1):
Optional
McDonald, Peter D.
2002 “Disgrace Effects,” Interventions 4(3): 321-330.**
Marais, Mike
2006 "J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and the Task of the Imagination," Journal of Modern Literature 29(2): 75-93.

Week 10 29/12/14
Adamastor’s Daughters
Camões, Luis Vaz de
1997 (1572) The Lusiads, translated by Landeg White (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press).
Graham, Lucy
2003 “Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Journal of Southern African Studies 29(2): 433-444
Optional
Ahmed, Sarah
2004 “Affective Economies,” Social Text 22 (2): 117-139.
Bethlehem, Louise
2014 “Refusing Adamastor: Lucy Lurie and ‘White Writing’ in Disgrace,” in Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works, edited by Laura Wright, Jane Poyner and Elleke Boehmer, 105-111 (New York: Modern Language Association).**
Gray, Stephen
1979 “The White Man’s Creation Myth of Africa,” Southern African Literature: An Introduction (Cape Town: David Philip).

Week 11 05/01/15
Realism and Rape
Cornwell, Gareth
2002 “Realism, Rape, and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” 43(2): 307-322.

Optional
Boehmer, Elleke
2002 “Not Saying Sorry, Not Speaking Pain: Gender Implications in Disgrace” Interventions Vol. 4(3) 342–351. **

Week 12 12/01/15
Sanders, Rebecca
2005 “Disgrace in the Time of a Truth Commission,” Parallax 11(3): 99-106.

Week 13 19/01/15
Eight Lessons?
Gaylard, Gerald
2005 "Disgraceful Metafiction: Intertextuality in the Postcolony" Journal of Literary /Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap 21(3/4): 315-337.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
2002 “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching,” diacritics 32 (3-4): 17-31.

Presentation of Synthesis Matrices

Week 14 26/01/15
Coda: Reeling in Disgrace: Film Screening of Steve Jacobs’ 2008 movie, Disgrace.

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