TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meijer, Maaike
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Chapter Coetzee’s Disgrace
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
CY  - Amsterdam
KW  - Theory of art
KW  - Social discrimination & inequality
AB  - In this essay I discuss Buikema’s ideas about the specific function of literature in times of social upheaval and political violence. Buikema resists the current tendency to reduce engaged novels to their political views and statements about the world. To their author’s intentions, basically. A literary analysis has to do justice to the ways in which political themes are represented, which largely escape authorial control. Close (inter)textual analysis can arrive at different experiences of a work of art. Buikema illustrated this conviction with an analysis of Coetzee’s Disgrace. I continue her analysis and read Disgrace for its stunning literary representation of hegemonic masculinity and how a white macho man is transformed and healed. Women and blacks guide him in this process
SN  - 9789048560110
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121651
LA  - Undetermined language
N1  - Dutch
ID  - 1877759325
ER  -