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Index

abandoned settlements 78 'Die Abweisung' ('The Refusal')

(Kafka) 157 An Account of Travels into the

Interior of Southern Africa (Barrow) 114-15

Aeneid (Virgil) 202, 211 African archaeology 201, 208 African identity:

definition of 83-5 transition to 98-101, 204,

211-12 Afrikaans dialogue:

in Coetzee's work 120, 128-9 Afrikaans language 89, 100-1,

103, 104, 120, 128-9, 134 see also language

Afrikaans writing 89, 100-1, 103, 104

Afrikaner nationalism 97 Afrikaner Nationalist Party 91 Age of Iron

allegory in 194 characters 4, 45, 48, 49, 59-60,

90, 192-212 critical studies 165-6, 191-212 Darwinian theory in 193, 194 dream sequences 195-6 entropic principles in 192-212 evolutionary principles in

192-212 historical framework 154-5,

171, 191 intertextual relationships 155 myths in 196-8, 204-6, 207,

210 narrator 48, 59, 60 themes 9, 22, 40, 45, 49, 58-9,

59-61, 192-212 'The Agentless Sentence as

Rhetorical Device' (article) 92

Alexander, Neville 65

allegorical fables 156 allegory:

Coetzee's novels as 138-51, 158-9

in Coetzee's work 181, 182, 192

definition of 138-9, 149 double-sided 140 and interpretation 141-9,

150-1 in postcolonial literature 139 and postmodernism 139, 150 purpose of 140-1 self-reflexive 140, 147 theory of 138-9, 149

allusiveness see intertextual relationships

'Ein Altes Blatt' ('An Old Manuscript') (Kafka) 156-7

ANC 93 animal similies 163 Annan, Gabriele 206 anticolonialism 74

see also colonialism apartheid 3, 4-5, 61, 86-7, 94-7,

104, 178 see also South Africa

'Apartheid and the Decline of the Civilization Idea' (Rich} 211-12

apocalyptic novelists: in South Africa 166, 192

apocalyptic vision 196, 197, 203 Archaeology of Knowledge

(Foucault} 147-8 Arendt, Hannah 14 Aristotle 29 Armah, Ayi Kwei 98 Ashcroft, Bill and others:

The Empire Writes Back 73 atrocities 113-14, 115

see also violence Attridge, Derek 2, 38, 41, 42, 44

231

232 Index

Attweil, David 62, 188-9 J. M. Coetzee. . . 1, 147, 148 Doubling the Point 10, 37-8,

58,62 Auerbach, Nina 187 authenticity:

doctrine of 84, 85 authorship 79-80

colonial 68-9 and gender 56, 101, 104, 165 imperial 68-70 metaphoric 67-8

Bakhtin, Mikhail 141, 150 Barrett, William:

Irrational Man 20 Barrow, Sir John

An Account of Travels... 114-15 Barth, John 6 Barthes, Roland 126

Mythologies 204-5 S/Z 17-18, 80

Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville) 167

'The Beast in the Jungle' (James) 167

Beckett, Samuel 30, 155, 167, 169, 173, 189

Coetzee on 82-3, 103 Endgame 203 The Unnameable 24

'Beim Bauder chinesischen Mauer' ('The Great Wall of China') (Kafka) 156, 157

being: and action 28-31 concept of 30-1, 33-4

Being and Nothingness (Sartre) 25, 33

Bellow, Saul: Herzog 24, 126

Benjamin, Walter: The Origin of German Tragic

Drama 145-7 Walter Benjamin ... (Eagleton) 146 Bergh, Olaf 110, 118 Berryman, John 24 Beyond Good and Evil

(Nietzsche) 116-17

Bhabha, Homi 81 birth motifs 76 Black Consciousness

movement 54, 85, 94, 98 black liberation movement 57,

93, 96-7, 154, 170-1, 194, 198, 204

black men: sexual issues 132-3

black women: sexual issues 132-3

black women's writing 56 see also woman's writing

black writing 54-7, 87-8, 103 use of language 55-6, 97-8 see also white writing

blindness: as a metaphor 141

'Blood, Taint, Flaw, Degeneration' (essay) 91, 102

the body: as agent of language 48-9

book prizes 1, 61 Booker-McConnell Prize 1 the bourgeosie 96 Breton, Andre 102 Breytenbach, Breyten 58, 92,

100-1 Brink, Andre 92, 104, 153, 166

Instant in the Wind 133 'Mapmakers' 62

Brink, Carel Frederick 108-9, 110, 111, 114, 118

burrow motif 160, 161-2, 163 Buthelezi, Gatsha 84 Butler, Guy:

Strangers to Europe 91 Buzzati, Dino 160, 166-7

II Deserto dei Tartari 166

canonisa tion: of Coetzee's work 168-71,

172-90 definition of 168-9, 174-5 exclusion from 182 and ideology 171 idiocanons 174 politics of 168-9 process of 174-5

Index 233

resistance to 188 and silence 182-3

Carroll, David: The Subject in Question 77, 81

Carusi, Annamaria 66, 67, 73-4 Castillo, Debra 44 The Castle (Kafka) 156, 165, 187 Cavafy, C. P. 160, 166-7

Collected Poems 166, 169 censorship 104 Cernuda, Luis 24 Cesaire, Aime:

Discourse on Colonialism 18 Chapman, Michael 64 Christianity 53, 111-12 Chronicles of Darkness

(Ward) 153 'The Civilisation of Iron'

(Kunene) 209-10 class issues 96, 99, 148-9, 151 the classics 194-7, 207, 208 Clayton, Cherry 25, 125 Clouts, Sidney 76 Cochrane, Charles:

Thucydides and the Science of History 207

Coetzee, J. M.: attitude to politics 61-3 childhood 127 as critic 7, 58, 62-3, 82-104 elusiveness as a writer 3, 4-6,

9-10 family 191 Gordimer on vii-xii, 7, 138 and Gordimer 1, 9, 149, 153-5 on Gordimer 54, 92, 104 independence of 4 as intellectual 22, 24-8, 29 interviews with 10, 13, 37-8,

58, 62, 121-2, 151, 152, 155, 166, 190

on Kafka 162 and national identity 4, 5-6 and Kenneth Parker 104 as postcoloniser 139-40 reputation 1, 6·-8, 82 sense of crisis 8-9 surname 165 themes in his writing 5, 6-8

use of language 5, 17-18, 125-6, 128-31, 169-70, 173-4

writing style 22, 88, 169-70, 173-4

J. M. Coetzee: A Bibliography (Goddard and Read) 61, 65

J. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (Attwell) 1, 147, 148

Coetzee, Jacobus 108, 109-10, 114, 118

see also Dusklands cognitive mapping concept 92,

93 Colonel Jack (Defoe) 187 C7olonial Encounters (Hulme) 86 colonial literature 14-15, 35-6,

39-40, 41-3, 127-31 and the colonised 66-81 imperial authorship 68-70 metaphor of silence 39-41,

42-52, 76, 9Q-1 post-colonial 55-61, 66-8,

101-2, 139, 140, 150 psychological problems

of 128-31 see also South African literature

colonialism: allegory of 158-9 anticolonialism 74 in Coetzee's work 7-8, 13-36,

67-9 critiques of 15, 86-7 cultural 66-81 definition of 18 economics of 18-19, 22, 115 meaning of 18 motives for 18-21, 69-70 and oppression 52-7, 69-70 and power 19-21, 70-3, 141-2,

156-7 postcolonialism 205, 211-12

colonisation 22-4 of the body 14 and literature 66-81 master-slave relationship 14-15,

22, 69, 81, 141-2, 151 of the mind 14

234 Index

unwilling 22, 23-4, 27-8, 30-1, 101-2

The Coloniser and the Colonised (Memmi) 23-4, 33, 101

Coloured communities: in South African novels 94-7

communication see language; silence; speech

'Confession and Double Thoughts' (essay) 101

Congress of South African Writers 61, 85, 104

conquest: metaphysics of 41-3 see also colonialism

The Conquest of America (Todorov) 43

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness 13, 15, 25,

51 consciousness raising 57 The Conservationist

(Gordimer) 54 conservative allegory 139

see also allegory contemplation 31

see also being context:

and language 130-1 Contrast Gournal) 104 Cope, Jack 104 cosmic time 197-8

see also time Countries of the Mind ... (Penner)

1, 122, 123, 127, 186-7 Crewe, Jonathan 111 crisis of representation:

in postmodernism 139, 150 critical studies vii-xii, 1-2, 6-8,

38-9, 61-3, 64, 213-16 Age of Iron 165-6, 191-212 by blacks 61, 65 Dusklands 41-3, 44, 66-7, 71,

107-19 Foe 44, 64, 65, 67-8, 74, 171-90 Life & Times of Michael K 9,

44, 46, 69, 166, 172 In the Heart of the Country &-7,

25, 120-37, 140

solidarity criticism 57 Waiting for the Barbarians 21,

138-51, 166 White Writing 83-104

critical theory 57-67 Coetzee's interest in 125-6 structuralist 69-70

Cronje, Geoffrey 104 cross-border readers 83, 88 Culler, J.:

Structuralist Poetics 69 cultural colonialism 66-81

see also colonialism cultural cringe concept 25 cultural studies:

Coetzee's interest in 83, 103 cultural transformation 86 culture 175, 182, 189-90 Current Writing Gournal) 57, 64

Darke, Neil 187 Darwinian theory 193, 194,

199-200, 207 De Klerk, Frederik Willem 87,

104 de Man, Paul 139, 140, 149-50 Deane, Seamus 62-3 death and dying 59, 160, 191-2,

193-4, 200-3, 207 heat death 203, 209

deconstruction 146-7 in Foe 155 and postmodernism 139, 150

Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws (1952) 97

Defoe, Daniel 169, 170, 187-8 Colonel Jack 187 The Dumb Philosopher 188 Moll Flanders 177 Robinson Crusoe 170, 173, 177,

187, 188, 190, 210 Roxana 173, 177, 178, 188 A True Relation . . . 188

degenerative cycles 196-7, 203 degenerativity 199-200

science of 208 Dennis, Nigel:

A House in Order 167 Derrida, Jacques 210-11

Index 235

on otherness 189 Speech and Phenomena . . . 64

Descartes, Rene 20 II Deserto dei Tartari (Buzzati)

166 discourse:

dominant 43-52, 181, 183-4, 189

liberal 141-9, 170, 174 and meaning 142-3 political 61-3, 80-1, 94, 181-6 prior modes of 140, 146-7,

150 see also speech

Discourse on Colonialism (Cesaire) 18

Discourse/Counter Discourse (Terdiman) 40

Disney characters 163-4 the dissenting coloniser 22, 23-4,

27-8, 30-1, 101-2 see also colonisation

Dodd, Josephin 79, 122-3 dominant discourses 43-52, 181,

183-4, 189 see also discourse

Dostoevsky, Fyodor 98 Doubling the Point (Attwell) 10,

37-8, 58, 62 Dovey, Teresa 77, 162, 165, 166,

211 The Novels of J. M. Coetzee ...

1, 62, 131, 145, 162, 164 dream sequences 195-6 The Dumb Philosopher

(Defoe) 188 Dusklands:

characters 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 40-1, 70-1, 90-1, 109-18

critical studies 41-3, 44, 66-7, 71, 107-19

epigraph to 21 historical framework 107-15,

146 intertextual relationships 24,

187 modernism of 15-17 narrators 44, 111, 113 publishing history 83

sadism in 113, 115, 116-17 themes 13, 14-15, 16-17, 19-21,

22, 58-9, 71-2, 78-9, 110-19, 150

violence in 113-18 Dutch, the 52, 53 Dutch East India Company 41 Dutch explorers 114-15

see also exploration

Eagleton, Terry: Walter Benjamin . . . 146

economics: of colonialism 18-19, 22, 115

educational process 56, 127 'Das Ehepaar' ('The Married

Couple') (Kafka) 160 electoral systems 97 Eliade, Mircea:

The Myth of Eternal Return 197-8

Eliot, T. S. 24 the empire:

as allegory 158-9 see also colonialism

The Empire Writes Back (Ashcroft and others) 73

empowerment: science as 74-5

Endgame (Beckett) 203 English language 26, 55-6, 91,

97-8 see also language

'The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett' (thesis) 82-3, 103

English studies: in universities 82-3

entropic inertia 197 entropic principles:

and evolution 192-212 entropic view:

of history 196 'Entropy' (Pynchon) 209 Entropy . .. (Rifkin) 196, 204, 209 Entropy law 209 erasure 80

see also silence escape:

desire for 22-3

236 Index

The Essential Gesture (Gordimer) 62 ethnic traditions 56 Eugene Onegin (Pushkin) 150 European identity 84-5, 86-7 evolutionary principles:

and entropy 192-212 exclusion processes 86-7 exploration:

by the Dutch 114-15 narratives of 41, 58, 108-9,

110, 114-15, 118 as a theme in Coetzee's work

110-19 the eye:

as a metaphor 71-3

'Farm Novel and Plaasroman' (essay) 91

female characters 45-6 feminist theories 48 Ferreira, Jeannette 101, 104 fiction:

definition of 21-2 Fineman, Joel 150-1 Finley, John:

Thucydides 207 Finn, Stephen 94 Flaubert, Gustave 21, 90, 107 Foe:

characters 41, 44, 46-8, 50, 67-8, 69, 74, 79-80, 161, 174-82

critical studies 44, 64, 65, 67-8, 74, 171-90

deconstruction in 155 historical framework 155, 182,

188 intertextual relationships 155,

169, 172-4 narrator 48 themes 50, 59, 67-8, 69, 72-3,

78, 79-80, 139, 150, 174-82 Fontenrose, Joseph 198 Fools (Ndebele) 98-9 Foucault, Michel 211

Archaeology of Knowledge 147-8 'Nietzsche' 205-6

France 53, 209 French, Sean 206

Freud, Sigmund 29, 133-4 Fugard, Athol 58

Gallagher, Susan VanZanten 165, 166

A Story of South Africa . . . 1, 120, 123, 206

the gaze: as a metaphor 71-2, 157

gender: and authorship 165

gender silence 183, 189 see also silence

geography see landscape Giddens, Anthony:

Modernity and Self-Identity 6-7, 136

Glenn, Ian 1-2, 6 God:

concept of 68-9 Goddard, Kevin:

J. M. Coetzee: A Bibliography 61,65

Gomas, Johnny 95 Goal, Zainunissa (Cissie) 95 Gordimer, Nadine 54, 64

Coetzee on 54, 92, 104 and Coetzee 1, 9, 149, 153-5 on Coetzee vii-xii, 7, 138 The Conservationist 54 The Essential Gesture 62 The Idea of Gardening 138,

153-5 'Letters from his Father' 165-6. on Life & Times of Michael K

153-5 My Son's Story 154-5, 163, 165-6 Occasion for Loving 133 political attitudes 62 and Rushdie 85

Gracq, Julien: Le Rivage des Syrtes 166

Gramsci, Antonio 95 Selections from the Prison

Notebooks 88 Greeff, Rachelle 101, 104 Group Areas Act (1951) 97 guilt:

sense of 147

Index 237

Gutierrez, Antonio 181 Gwala, Mafika 94

hagiography 41 Hahn, C. H. L. (editor):

The Native Tribes of South West Africa 118

Haresnape, Geoffrey 104 Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 13,

15, 25, 51 heat death 203, 209

see also death and dying Hegel, G. W. F. 24 Heimholtz's theory 209 Herbert, Zbigniew:

'To Marcus Aurelius' 166 'The Return of the Proconsul'

166 'The Stone' 167

hermeneutics: of postcolonial literature 69-70

heroes: the people as 95

heroic myths 210 see also myths

Herschel, Abraham 30 Herzog (Bellow) 24, 126 Hesiod:

Ovid on 211 'Hesiod's Myth of Five

Ages' 196-7, 198, 199, 200, 203, 204

historical continuity 147-8 historical time 198

sense of 16-17, 18, 41-2, 108-9, 140, 145-6

history: Coetzee's interest in 2-3, 21,

31, 34, 37-8, 82, 87-8, 140, 150

deformation of 99-101 entropic view of 196 importance of 32, 90, 107,

188-9 myths 85-92, 196-8, 205, 207,

210 originators of 90-1 shared 83-5 uses of 142-3

Homer 196, 207 Hop, Hendrik 108, 113, 114, 118 Hope, Christopher 92

White Boy Running 100 'A House in Order' (Dennis) 167 Huggan, Graham 44

'Philomela's Retold Story' 210 Huismans, Emma 101, 104 Hulme, Peter:

Colonial Encounters 86 humanist discourse see liberal

discourse 'A Hunger Artist' (Kafka) 167 hunger artist motif 160-1, 187 Husserl, Edmund 64 Hutcheon, L. 73

iconography 195, 207 'The Idea of Gardening'

(Gordimer) 138, 153-5 idealism:

and materialism 21-2 identification:

of readers with characters 70-1. 81

ideology: of canonisation 171 liberal 8-9

idiocanons 174 see also canonisation

idleness 198-9 'Idleness in South Africa'

(essay) 91, 210 !-figures 121-6, 129

see also self illiteracy 90 images of language 141, 151 imperial authorship 68-70

see also colonial literature imperialism see colonialism impotence 45 In the Heart of the Country:

Afrikaans dialogue 120, 128-9 background to 2 characters 1-2, 13-14, 27-8,

30, 31-3, 40-1, 48-9, 58, 90, 120-31, 133-5

critical studies 6-7, 25, 120-37, 140

238 Index

historical background 121 inter-racial sexuality 131-5 intertextual relationships 24,

126, 128, 173 narrator 107, 121-6, 169 narrator I author problem

127-31 publishing history 83, 120 readings of 121-7, 135-6 stylistic issues 123-7 themes 22, 31-2, 90, 120-1,

131-7, 150, 178 use of language in 17-18,

125-6, 128-31 'In der Strafcolonie' ('In the

Penal Colony') (Kafka) 158-9, 166

indigenous peoples: in South Africa 52-7

Instant in the Wind (Brink) 133 intellectual qualities:

of Coetzee's work 22, 24-8, 29 intelligentsia 26-7, 28

white 88-9 interpretation:

and allegory 141-9, 150-1 novels as 142, 151 of otherness 69-70, 73 by readers 140

inter-racial sexuality 131-5 intertextual relationships:

Age of Iron 155 Coetzee/Kafka 152-67 in Coetzee's work 24, 152,

169, 186-7 Foe 155, 169, 172-4 In the Heart of the Country 24,

126, 128, 173 Life & Times of Michael K 152,

153-4, 156, 160, 167, 169, 173, 187

Waiting for the Barbarians 24, 152, 156, 157-8, 159, 160, 166, 169

interviews: with Coetzee 10, 13, 37-8, 58,

62, 121-2, 151, 152, 155, 166, 190

'Into the Dark Chamber'

(essay) 104 'Investigations of a Dog'

(Kafka) 167 irony:

Coetzee's use of 112-13 Irrational Man (Barrett) 20 Islamic fundamentalists:

in South Africa 104

Jacobson, Dan 53 James, Henry 24

'The Beast in the Jungle' 167 Jameson, Fredric 92, 93

The Political Unconscious 39, 145

Jerusalem Prize 1, 61 Jolly, Rosemary Jane 166 Jonala Gournal) 103-4 Jones, Ann Rosalind 48 Journal of New African

Literature see Jonala The Journals of Bergh and Schrijver

(Mossop) 110, 118 The Journals of Brink and Rhenius

(Mossop) 108-9, 114, 118 The Journals of Wikar, Coetse and

Van Reenen (Mossop) 108, 117, 118, 119

Joyce, James 128

Kafka, Franz: 'Die Abweisung' 157 'Ein Altes Blatt' 156-7 'Beim Bau der chinesischen

Mauer' 156 The Castle 156, 165, 187 Coetzee on 162 'Das Ehepaar' 160 'A Hunger Artist' 167 'In der Strafcolonie' 158-9,

166 as intertexts in Coetzee 24,

152-67, 169, 187, 189, 211 as intertexts in Gordimer 154-5,

165-6 'Der kaiserliche Oberst' 157 'Der Landarzt' 158 orientalist stories 156-7 The Trial 156-7

Index 239

'Die Truppenaushebung' 158 'Der kaiserliche Oberst' ('The

Imperial Colonel') (Kafka) 157

Kierkegaard, S0ren Aabye 91 King Lear (Shakespeare) 170 Knox-Shaw, Peter 19 Koestler, Arthur:

The Yogi and the Commissar 26-7

Kristeva, Julia 44-5, 46, 63 Kunene, Mazisi:

'The Civilisation of Iron' 209-10

La Guma, Alex 104 Coetzee on 94-7, 98, 131 publishing history 93 A Walk in the Night . . . 92-7,

103-4 Lampedusa, Guiseppe:

The Leopard 87 'Der Landarzt' ('The Country

Doctor') (Kafka) 158 landscape 156, 184

Coetzee's interest in 76-9, 82 Landscape in Ovid's

'Metamorphoses' (Segal) 211 landscape poetry 71, 76

see also pastoral tradition language:

Afrikaans 89, 100-1, 103, 104, 120, 128-9, 134

in black writing 55-6, 97-8 the body as agent of 48-9 Coetzee's use of 5, 17-18,

125-6, 128-31, 169-70, 173-4

and context 130-1 English 26, 55-6, 91, 97-8 images of 141, 151 meaning of 37-9, 47, 140, 150 non-phallocentric 45, 49, 50 and power 73-5 purpose of 142, 151 see also speech

The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa (Phillipson) 208

Lawrence, D. H. 107

Lazarus, Neil 63, 64, 189 Le Vaillant, M.:

Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa. . . 114-15

Le Vent (Simon) 81 Lehmann-Haupt,

Christopher 153, 165, 187 The Leopard (Lampedusa) 87 'Letters from his Father'

(Gordimer) 165-6 'Letters to his Father'

(Kafka} 165-6 Levi-Strauss, Claude 210, 211 liberal discourse 141-9, 170, 174

see also discourse liberal ideology 8-9 liberalism:

in South Africa 39, 60, 84-5, 94, 99-100, 101-2, 104, 200

Life & Times of Michael K: characters 4, 14, 22-3, 30,

32-3, 34-5, 40-1, 45, 46, 69, 75-9, 188

critical studies 9, 144, 46, 69, 166, 172

Gordimer on 153-5 intertextual relationships 152,

153-4, 156, 160-4, 167, 169, 173, 187

themes 9, 14, 22-3, 45, 58, 75-9, 150, 178, 189-90, 208-9

linguistics: Coetzee's interest in 83, 103,

123-4 literary style 40, 55-6 Locke, John:

Two Treatises on Civil Government 86

Louw, Chris 85 Lyotard, Jean-Fran~ois 150

McHale, 8.: Postmodernist Fiction 80

madness 110-11, 117, 118, 131 Makhoba, Boyd 94 Mandela, Nelson 87 Mapmakers (Brink) 62

240 Index

Maragall, Joan 58, 62, 140 Marcus Aurelius 196, 197 Marx, Karl 21 Marxism 85, 94, 95, 121, 194 Marxism and Deconstruction

(Ryan) 151 master-slave relationship 14-15,

22, 69, 81, 141-2, 151 see also colonisation; slaves

materialism: and idealism 21-2

meaning: plurality of 17-18

Melville, Herman: Bartleby the Scrivener 167

Memmi, Albert: The Coloniser and the Colonised

23-4, 33, 101 Mennecke, Arnim:

Koloniales Bewusstsein in den Romanen J. M. Coetzee 167

Merivale, Patricia 166 metafication 67, 69-81

and postmodernism 67, 80-1 Metamorphoses (Ovid) 85-6 metaphoric authorship 67-8 metaphysics:

of conquest 41-3 of power 19-21

Michael Kohlhass (von Kleist) 165

Mi.ller, Christopher: Theories of Africans 43

Miller, J. Hillis 146 Millin, Sarah Gertrude 199 Mitosz, Czeslaw 31 modern allegory 149

see also allegory modernism 54, 64, 135-7, 189

postmodernism 54, 64, 67, 80-1, 85, 139, 140, 150

premodernism 55 modernist parables 156 Modernity and Self-Identity

(Giddens) 6-7, 135-6 Moi, Toril:

Sexual/Textual Politics 48 Moll Flanders {Defoe) 177 Morphet, Tony 152, 166

Mossop, E. E. (editor) The Journals of Berg and

Schrijver 110, 118 The Journals of Brink and

Rhenius 108-9, 114, 118 The Journals of Wikar, -Coetse and

Van Reenan 108, 117-19 motherhood 48, 49 mourning 191-2 Mphahlele, Es'kia 94 mutilation 179-80, 181, 188, 189

see also violence My Son's Story (Gordimer) 154-5,

163, 165-6 'Myth of Apocalypse' 196 'Myth of Eternal Return' 196 The Myth of Eternal Retum

(Eliade) 197-8 'Myth of Five Ages' (Hesiod)

196-7, 198, 199, 200, 203, 204 'Myth of Progress' 199, 204, 209 Mythologies (Barthes) 204-5 mythomorphic texts 205-6,

210-11 myths 196-8, 204-6, 207, 210

demythification 89-92 functions of 197-8, 205 heroic 210 poststructuralist readings

210-11 purgatorial 210 of white South Africa 85-9,

91-2, 210 see also history

Mzamane, Mbulelo 94

Nabokov, Vladimir: Pale Fire 123

Namaqua tribe 109, 110-11, 112, 116-17, 119

'The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee' see Dusklands

narrative strategies: in Coetzee's work 70-3

national literature: Coetzee's view of 92-101

nationalism 53 native characters:

in Coetzee's work 69

Index 241

The Native Tribes of South West Africa (Hahn) 118

Ndebele, Njabulo 56-7, 64, 84, 183

Coetzee on 92, 97-9 Fools 98-9

Neumann, Anne 151 new black aesthetics 54-5 Nietzsche, Friedrich 20-1, 123

Beyond Good and Evil 116-17 Nietzsche (Foucault) 205-6 Nkosi, Lewis 56-7, 64, 83, 92-3 No Exit (Sartre) 203 nomads 156 Non-European Unity Movement

96-7 'The Novel Today' (talk) 151 The Novels of f. M. Coetzee ...

(Dovey) 1, 62, 131, 145

O'Brien, Anthony 64 Occasion for Loving (Gordimer)

133 Okpaku, Joe 103-4 Olsen, Lance 151, 156-7 On Social Evolution (Spencer)

199, 204, 209 opposites:

politics of 3-4 relationship between 14, 39-43,

44-5, 83-4, 177-8 opposition:

culture of 56-7, 64 oppression 52-7

and literature 56-7 see also colonialism

the orient: in Kafka's work 156-7

The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Benjamin) 145-7

otherness: concept of 39-43, 179-82 Derrida on 189 interpretation of 69-70 master-slave relationship 14-15,

22, 59, 81, 141-2, 151 silencing of 52-7, 73-5

Ovid 89, 205, 211 Metamorphoses 85-6

Owens, Craig 138, 139

'The Pain' (Smith) 166 Pale Fire (Nabokov) 123 parables 207

modernist 156 parasite motifs 208-9 Parker, George 187 Parker, Kenneth 86, 91, 103, 104 Parrinder, Patrick 165-6 Parry, Benita 90 pastoral tradition 58-61, 91

landscape poetry 71, 76 patriarchal societies 55, 56 Paulin, Tom 123 Paulson, Ronald: · Representations of the Revolution,

1789-1820 207 Peake, George 95 Pechey, Graham 64 Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

207 Penner, Dick:

Countries of the Mind . . . 1, 122, 123, 127, 186-7

the people: as heroes 95

Phillipson, D. W.: The Later Prehistory of Eastern

and Southern Africa 208 'Philomela's Retold Story'

(Huggan) 210 'The Picturesque, the Sublime,

and the South African Landscape' (essay) 91

Plato 28, 198, 207 Plomer, William:

Turbott Wolfe 15, 132 poetry:

landscape poetry 71, 76 political awareness 185, 189-90

in South Africa 93-7, 185-6 political discourse 94, 181-6

Coetzee's attitude to 61-3, 80-1 see also discourse

political framework: to Coetzee's writing 83-102

The Political Unconscious Gameson) 39, 145

242 Index

polygamy 132 post-apartheid writing 64

see also black writing post-apartheid society 84 postcolonial literature 55-61,

66-81, 101-2 and allegory 139 definition 66-7 postmodernism 140, 150 see also colonial literature

postcolonialism 205, 211-12 see also colonialism

postmodernism 54, 64, 67, 80-1, 85

and allegory 139, 150 crisis of representation 139 and deconstruction 139, 150 and postcolonial literature

140, 150 Postmodernist Fiction (McHale) 80 poststructuralism 210-11 power:

and colonialism 19-21, 70-3, 141-2, 156-7

and language 73-5 metaphysics of 20-1 Nietzsche's theory of 20-1

premodern writing 55 Pretexts (journal) 57, 64 prior modes of discourse 140,

146-7, 150 Prix Femina Etranger 1 the proletariat 96 Promised Land (Schoeman) 166 psychoanalytic theory 44-5, 46 psychological problems:

of colonial literature 128-31 Puech, Henri-Charles 197-8 purgatorial myths 210

see also myths Pushkin, Alexander:

Eugene Onegin 150 Pynchon, Thomas:

'Entropy' 209

quotations see intertextual relationships

race silence 183-4, 189

see also silence racial identity 111-12

see also self radical politics 65 Read, John:

]. M. Coetzee: A Bibliography 61, 65

reading 70-1, 72-3, 140 'Reading the South African

Landscape' (essay) 76, 91, 210

realism: in literature 29-30, 56-7, 80-1,

83, 103 regenerative cycles 196-7 Representations of Revolution,

1789-1820 (Paulson) 207 'The Return of the Proconsul'

(Herbert) 166 revolution 195, 207 Rich, Paul:

'Apartheid and the Decline of the Civilization Idea' 211-12

Rifkin, Jeremy: Entropy: A New World View

196, 204, 209 Le Rivage des Syrtes (Gracq) 166 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 170,

173, 177, 187, 188, 190, 210 Rosenmeyer, Thomas 197 Roxana (Defoe) 173, 177, 178,

188 Rushdie, Salman 75, 104

The Satanic Verses 85, 104 Russian literature:

influence of 95 see also Kafka

Ryan, Alan 187 Ryan, Michael:

Marxism and Deconstruction 151

sadism 113, 115, 116-17, 158-9 see also violence

Sartre, Jean-Paul: Being and Nothingness 25, 33 No Exit 203

The Satanic Verses (Rushdie) 85, 104

Schoeman, Karel: Promised Land 166

Schreiner, Olive: The Story of an African Farm

14-15, 53, 131 Schulte-Sasse, Jochen 55 Segal, C. P.:

Landscape in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' 211

Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Gramsci) 88

self 69 centrality of 90-1 1-figures 121-6, 129 racial identity 111-12

self-awareness 90 self-reflexivity 140, 147, 165 Sepamla, Sipho 94 September, Reggie 95 the Sestigers 53-4 Sevry, Jean 152, 153 sexual issues 132-3 sexual passivity 45 'Sexual/Textual Politics' (Moi)

48 sexuality:

of black men 132-3 of black women 132-3 blocked 135-7 inter-racial 131-5 of white women 132-3

Shakespeare, William: King Lear 170

shared history 83-5 see also history

siege motif 159-60 sign theory 48, 64

see also language silence:

ambiguity of 43 and canonisation 182-3 dominant discourses 43-52,

181, 183-4, 189 as empowerment 74-5 erasure 80 gender silence 183, 189 as a metaphor 39-41, 42-52,

76, 90-1 and otherness 52-7, 73-5

Index 243

politics of 75 race silence 183-4, 189 reading of 51-2 significance of 43-4, 63, 75,

182-3 and sound 51-2 symbolism of 45-8, 89-90

silent characters 44-50, 73-5, 89-90, 179-82, 188

see also individual titles silent consciousness 48, 63-4 Simon, Claude:

Le Vent 81 'Simple Language, Simple

People' (essay) 91 slaves:

as characters 40-1, 44, 46-8 master-slave relationship 14-15,

22, 69, 81, 141-2, 151 see also colonisation

Siemon, Stephen 66, 67, 69, 73, 139, 140

Smith Pauline: 'The Pain' 166

Smith, Peter 197 social context:

of Coetzee's work 1-5, 10, 14 social development:

in South Africa 199, 200 social realism:

in the novel 54, 93-4 Socrates 207 solidarity criticism 57

see also critical studies solitary characters:

in Coetzee's work 170, 176-7 South Africa:

apartheid 3, 4-5, 61, 86-7, 91-2, 94-7, 104, 178

in Coetzee's work 1-2, 3, 37-63, 57-61, 82-104

economic structure 53, 55 history 2-3, 13, 41-2, 86-7,

91-2, 121, 191-2 indigenous peoples 52-7 Islamic fundamentalists in 104 literacy crisis in 8-9 new 86-7 political awareness in 93-7

244 Index

social development 199, 200 transculturation 55-7 and the West 52-3 white myths of 85-9, 91-2, 210

South African Coloured Peoples' Congress 93, 104

South African Coloured Peoples' Organisation 96-7

South African culture 1-5, 10, 53-4

South African liberalism 39, 60, 84-5, 94, 99-100, 101-2, 104, 200

see also liberal discourse South African literature:

concept of 13, 15, 35-6, 39-40, 92-101

white writing 37-65, 82-3, 184-5

see also colonial literature South African politics 21 Soweto Revolt (1976) 2, 121 Soweto school:

of writing 98 speech:

dominant discourses 43-52, 181, 183-4, 189

as a metaphor 40, 41-2 prior modes of discourse 140,

150 priority of 50, 73, 172-3 see also language; silence

Speech and Phenomena ... (Derrida) 64

Spencer, Herbert 200 On Social Evolution 199, 204,

209 Spivak, Gayatri 44, 67, 74, 79,

189 Splendore, Paola 44 Staffrider (journal) 54 the state:

writers' relationships with 97, 104

Steiner, George 166 'The Stone' (Herbert) 167 stone motifs 76-7 The Story of an African Farm

(Schreiner) 14-15, 53, 131

A Story of South Africa ... (Gallagher) 1, 120, 123, 206

storytelling 121-6, 175 Strangers to Europe (Butler) 91 Strauss, Peter 173 structural linguistics 24-5 Structuralist Poetics (Culler) 69 structuralist theory 69-70

see also critical theory The Subject in Question (Carroll)

77, 81 subversive allegory 139

see also allegory Suppression of Communism Act

(1962) 93 'Surreal Metaphors and Random

Processes' (essay) 102 survival 202-3 symbolism:

birth 76 blindness 141 burrows 160, 161-2, 163 the eye 71-3 the gaze 71-2, 157 parasites 208-9 of silence 45-8, 89-90 stones 76-7

S/Z (Barthes) 17-18, 80

Terdiman, Richard: Discourse/Counter-Discourse 40

thematic focus: of Coetzee's work 170, 174

Theories of Africans (Miller) 43 Thucydides 196, 207

Peloponnesian War 207 Thucydides (Finley) 207 Thucydides and the Science of

History (Cochrane) 207 Tiffin, Helen 67 time:

cosmic 197-8 historical 16-17, 18, 41-2,

108-9, 140, 145-6, 198 'To Marcus Aurelius'

(Herbert) 166 Todorov, Tzvetan 69

The Conquest of America 43 topography see landscape

Index 245

Tournier, Michel: Vendredi... 190

traditional allegory 149 see also allegory

tragic form: in Coetzee's writing 143-4,

145-6 transculturation:

in South Africa 55-6 transformation:

cultural 86, 87, 88-9 Travels into the Interior Parts of

Africa. . . 114-15 Tl1e Trial (Kafka) 156 A True Relation of the Apparition

of One Mrs Veal (Defoe) 188 Trump, Martin 84, 94 'Die Truppenaushebung' ('The

Conscription of Troops') (Kafka) 158

Turbott Wolfe (Plomer) 15, 132 Two Treatises on Civil Government

(Locke) 86

universities: English studies in 82-3

The Unnameable (Beckett) 24 urban blacks 55, 56

value judgements 175 van Niekerk, Marlene 101, 104 Vaughan, Michael 21-2, 30, 121 Vedder, H. 118 \lendredi, ou les limbes du Pacifique

(Tournier) 190 Vergniaud, Pierre 209 Vietnam War 13, 107, 117, 170 violence 182

atrocities 113-14, 115 in Coetzee's work 113-18 mutilation 179-80, 181, 188,

189 Virgil 196, 207

Aeneid 202, 211 von Kleist, Heinrich:

Michael Kohihass 165 Voss (White) 24, 126

Wade, Michael 92, 138, 148, 151 Waiting for the Barbarians:

as allegory 138-51 characters 4, 40-1, 48, 89-90,

140 critical studies 21, 138-51, 166 historical framework 107, 145 intertextual relationships 24,

152, 156, 157-8, 159, 160, 162-3, 166, 169

themes 9, 14, 22, 32-3, 59, 140-9, 184, 189-90

use of present tense 147, 151 A Walk in the Night ... (La

Guma) 92-7, 103-4 Ward, David 153

Chronicles of Darkness 153 Watson, Stephen 101, 121-2,

136-7, 152, 166 White, Patrick:

Voss 24, 126 White Boy Running (Hope) 100 white identity see European

identity white intelligentsia 88-9

see also intelligentsia white women:

sexual issues 132-3 white women writers 101, 104 white writing:

Coetzee's contribution 83-9, 189

post-apartheid 64 in South Africa 37-65, 82-3,

184-5 see also black writing

White Writing 38, 51-2, 58, 71 background to 82-3, 85-9 critical studies 83-104 epigraph to 85-6 essays in 82-3, 102, 199, 202,

210 themes 91, 166

Whitman, Walt 128 Wikar, Hendrik 108, 117, 118,

119 Williams, William Carlos 24 withholding see silence woman's language 48

246

woman's writing: black women 56 Coetzee's imitation of 45, 49,

50-1 white women 101, 104 see also authorship

women: as narrators 48-50

work: value of 198

Worrall, Denis 26 writers:

and the state 97, 104

Index

writing: primacy of 47, 50, 64 Soweto school of 98 woman's 45, 49-51, 56, 101-4

writing style: Coetzee's 22, 88, 169-70,

173-4

The Yogi and the Commissar (Koestler) 26-7

Zamora, Lois Parkinson 138, 140, 156