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- Title
"Why Will He Not Join the Guerrillas?": J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and the Politics of the Postcolonial Novel.
- Authors
Dean, Andrew
- Abstract
I explore the contest between anticolonial and postcolonial criticism in the mid-1980s, focusing on the composition and reception of J. M. Coetzee's 1983 novel Life & Times of Michael K. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, I show that Coetzee himself negotiated these two modes of political evaluation in the novel. He was particularly concerned with how his novel might appear to endorse postcolonial literary thought and what the political consequences of this might be. In the exuberant work that results, he draws on the affordances of literary form to escape schematic political rationalizations of either account.
- Subjects
ANTI-imperialist movements; POSTCOLONIALISM; COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; LIFE &; Times of Michael K (Book); PRACTICAL politics; RATIONALIZATION (Sociology)
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2019, Vol 65, Issue 4, p676
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.2019.0049