Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Pawel Wojtas

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 March 2024
Pages
320
ISBN
9781399522571

Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Pawel Wojtas

This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawel Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.

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