Synopsis
This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee's published writings, including his most recent work. It seeks to situate his writing in the framework of both postmodernist and postcolonial theory and criticism. In addition, it links the political and social aspects of Coetzee's writing, its South African provenance and its often oblique engagement with contemporary issues, and with formal questions regarding structure, rhetoric and narrative strategies in his novels. By approaching Coetzee's fiction from a variety of critical angles and taking into account the recent changes in critical reception -- exemplified by the Nobel Prize he was awarded in 2004 -- and the transformations in the social and political context of South Africa, it offers a thorough assessment of the author's oeuvre.
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Review
-Der grosste Verdienst von Michela Canepari-Labib ist, eine Gesamtperspektive auf Coetzees Werk entwickelt zu haben.- (Hilmar Heister, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung)"
Der grote Verdienst von Michela Canepari-Labib ist, eine Gesamtperspektive auf Coetzees Werk entwickelt zu haben. (Hilmar Heister, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung)
About the Author
Michela Canepari-Labib was born in Italy and educated at the University of Pavia (Italy) where she studied English and French Literature and the University of Sussex (UK) where she obtained a Master's degree in Critical Theory and a PhD in English Literature. She was recently awarded a scholarship from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici directed by Umberto Eco at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Word-Worlds, a study of the work of Christine Brooke-Rose (Peter Lang, 2002). She teaches English at the Universities of Parma and Milan (Italy).
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