The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

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J. M. Coetzee novelist, essayist and public intellectual is widely recognized as one of the most important Anglophone writers in the world today, a status recognized with his 2003 award of the Nobel Prize for Literature. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee is the most comprehensive available exploration of the depth and range of his work. The book covers a range of topics, including: The full span of Coetzees work, from his poetry and essays to major fictional works such as Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels Coetzees sources and influences, including his engagements with Russian, Australian and Latin American culture Interdisciplinary perspectives, including gender, race, posthuman and digital humanities perspectives Biographical and archival approaches The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee includes a substantial biography of primary and secondary works by and about the author.

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This book offers an extraordinary and exciting array of information, ideas, insights, as well as assessments and unexpected contexts, about Coetzees life and works. Its comprehensiveness is really quite remarkable. The perceptive, thoughtful essays quickly challenged me into thinking afresh and anewI found myself immediately propelled back to Coetzees books on my shelves and starting to reread them. Every admirer of Coetzee will want to have this book by their side. * Robert J.C. Young, Professor of English, New York University, USA *
Like many innovative writers, J. M. Coetzee has always been wary of what he once called the critics games handbook. Thankfully, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee heeds this caution. Assembling an impressive array of established and emergent critics, this welcome, even game-changing collection opens Coetzees astonishing oeuvre for a new generation of readers in myriad productive ways * Peter D. McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford, UK *

Author Bio

Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide, Australia. and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His previous books include Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (2017), South African Textual Cultures (2007), and, as editor or co-editor, Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (2012), Zo Wicomb's Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays (2018), and South African Writing in Transition (2019). Lucy Valerie Graham is Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the author of State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012).