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J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography
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by Marc Farrant (Editor), Kai Easton (Editor), Hermann Wittenberg (Editor)
Marc Farrant
J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography
256
by Marc Farrant (Editor), Kai Easton (Editor), Hermann Wittenberg (Editor)
Marc Farrant
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Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee's oeuvre.
Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence.
Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present.
Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence.
Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350165977 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication date: | 03/25/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS University of London, UK. She is co-editor (with Derek Attridge) of Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (2017), and co-curator (with David Attwell) of the travelling exhibition, Scenes from the South (2020-21), a collaboration with Amazwi South African Museum of Literature and the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, to mark Coetzee's eightieth birthday.
Marc Farrant recently completed his doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, on Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. He currently lectures in English at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was awarded a doctoral research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015.
Hermann Wittenberg is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. Recent work includes the international exhibition (2017-2020) and photobook, J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood (2020).
Dr Marc Farrant recently completed his doctorate at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, on Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. He has published widely in academic journals such as The Cambridge Humanities Review, Textual Practice and The Journal of Modern Literature. He currently lectures in English at universities in Germany and the Netherlands. He was awarded a doctoral research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015.
Dr Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS, University of London. She was one of the first scholars to access Coetzee's archival materials at Houghton Library, Harvard University in the late 1990s and has published widely on Coetzee and South African literature, including most recently (with Derek Attridge) Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (Routledge, 2017). She has previously taught at the universities of Sussex, Rhodes and was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has twice been awarded research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center (2014; 2018).
Dr. Hermann Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has worked extensively in South Africa literary studies and published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. His edited books include Paton's Lost City of the Kalahari travelogue (UKZN Press, 2005) and the J.M. Coetzee's Two Screenplays (UCT Press, 2014). He has strong interests in the intersection of literature, film and photography, and has co-curated the recent “J.M. Coetzee: Photographs of Boyhood” exhibition (2017-18). He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. Wittenberg is also interested in eco-critical writing and has co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays, Rwenzori: Histories and Cultures of an African Mountain (Kampala: Fountain Press 2007), as well as a special issue of Alternation focusing on oceanic and coastal themes in South African literature. He has been awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center for the 2019-2020 session.
Marc Farrant recently completed his doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, on Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. He currently lectures in English at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was awarded a doctoral research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015.
Hermann Wittenberg is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. Recent work includes the international exhibition (2017-2020) and photobook, J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood (2020).
Dr Marc Farrant recently completed his doctorate at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, on Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. He has published widely in academic journals such as The Cambridge Humanities Review, Textual Practice and The Journal of Modern Literature. He currently lectures in English at universities in Germany and the Netherlands. He was awarded a doctoral research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015.
Dr Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS, University of London. She was one of the first scholars to access Coetzee's archival materials at Houghton Library, Harvard University in the late 1990s and has published widely on Coetzee and South African literature, including most recently (with Derek Attridge) Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (Routledge, 2017). She has previously taught at the universities of Sussex, Rhodes and was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has twice been awarded research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center (2014; 2018).
Dr. Hermann Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has worked extensively in South Africa literary studies and published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. His edited books include Paton's Lost City of the Kalahari travelogue (UKZN Press, 2005) and the J.M. Coetzee's Two Screenplays (UCT Press, 2014). He has strong interests in the intersection of literature, film and photography, and has co-curated the recent “J.M. Coetzee: Photographs of Boyhood” exhibition (2017-18). He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. Wittenberg is also interested in eco-critical writing and has co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays, Rwenzori: Histories and Cultures of an African Mountain (Kampala: Fountain Press 2007), as well as a special issue of Alternation focusing on oceanic and coastal themes in South African literature. He has been awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center for the 2019-2020 session.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Kai Easton , Marc Farrant &Hermann WittenbergI. Authorship and Autre-biography
1. Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) – 'Landmarks: Reading Coetzee's Maternal Lines'
2. Shaun Irlam (University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA) – 'Summertime Sadness: Coetzee, coordinates&negation of the archive'
3. Valeria Mosca (Independent Scholar) – 'On the Loss of Fathers and Letters: reading Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus alongside Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever'
II. History, Politics&the Archive
4. Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary University of London, UK) – 'Writing, Politics, Position: Coetzee and Gordimer in and out of the archive'
5. Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)– 'Out of the Dark Chamber: violence, desire and the late apartheid state in the textual history of Waiting for the Barbarians'
III: Archival Methods: Practice, Data, Process
6. Peter Johnston (Cambridge Assessment, UK) - 'Humming with fear of sincerity and fabulator': first observations from the Coetzee corpus and the Coetzee bot
7. Michael Green (Northumbria University, UK) – 'On Reflection: Coetzee, the archive, and practice research'
IV. On Literary Objects: Form and Style in the Archive
8. David Isaacs (Independent Scholar) – 'Archival Realism: Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace and the realm of revision'
9. Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyrpus) – 'In Pursuit of Style: Coetzee reading Beckett in the archive'
V. Philosophy and the Archive: Between Life and Truth
10. Marc Farrant (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 'The Aura of Truth': Coetzee's archive, realism, and the question of literary authority'
11. Richard A. Barney (University of Albany, SUNY, USA) – 'Coetzee, biopolitics, and the archive of impersonality'
12. Russell Samolsky (UC Santa Barbara, USA) – 'Shades of the Archive: J. M. Coetzee, the paradox of poetic sovereignty, and the lives of literary beings'
VI. Conversations with Coetzee
13. Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) – 'Curating Coetzee: from Austin to Adelaide'
14. Richard Mosse (Artist, Ireland) – 'Incoming/Waiting for the Barbarians'
15. Kai Easton (SOAS, UK) – '34** South'
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