Reading Coetzee's Women
This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world’s most significant living writers. The fourteen essays in this collection raise the central is
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Reading Coetzee’s Women
Sue Kossew • Melinda Harvey Editors
Reading Coetzee’s Women
Editors Sue Kossew Monash University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melinda Harvey Monash University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-19776-6 ISBN 978-3-030-19777-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19777-3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design: eStudioCalamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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The editors are grateful to the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, and Professor Rae Frances, for their generous financial support for the conference held in Prato, Italy, in September 2016 from which the majority of these chapters have emerged. Grateful thanks, too, to the School of Language, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics for internal funding for index preparation, and Sandra Pyke for her sterling work on this. Our gratitude to Dr Lynda Chapple and Matilda Grogan for their help in preparing the chapters for publication. For permission to quote from the J. M. Coetzee archive manuscript materials, we are very grateful to John Coetzee and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Sue Kossew was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (2015–2016) to research the J. M. Coetzee papers at the Harry Ransom Center.
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Contents
J. M. Coetzee and the Woman Question 1 Sue Kossew and Melinda Harvey
Part I Becoming Woman, Becoming Other 17 He and His Woman: Passing Performances and Coetzee’s Dialogic Drag 19 Laura Wright Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Costello: Coetzee’s Female Characters and the Limits of the Sympathetic Imagination 39 De
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