The Making of the New Man in Contemporary African Fiction: A Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
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https://doi.org/10.47963/jla.v1i1.86Keywords:
Coetzee, Disgrace, Masculinity, Futurity South Africa, Spatial DynamicsAbstract
Critical works on Coetzee’s Disgrace shows that the novel constructs a distressing picture of the conditions in post-apartheid South Africa –tabling his attempts at blurring national enthusiasm, creating racial stereotypes and consequently damaging the hopes of the new South Africa. However, a re-reading of the novel reveals that the survival of post-apartheid South Africa reside in the potential of a willing unity of racial bodies and a careful re-definition of masculinity vis-à-vis spatial re-configurations. Drawing on the concept of futurity and Frantz Fanon’s idea of the new man, this paper argues that the correlation between forms of community and forms of masculinity provide basis for re-configuring social cohesion in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Practice 23(5), 2009: 703–722
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Persistence of Hope” Social Alternatives 28 (3): 8-14
Ashcroft, B. (2009), “Beyond the Nation: Post-Colonial Hope” JEASA (Journal of the European
Association of Studies in Australia): 12-22.
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Renaissance Studies8(1): 94-114
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Attwell, D. & Harlow, B. (2000), Introduction: South African Fiction After Apartheid. Modern
Fiction Studies 46. 1:1-9
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Bloch, E. (1995). The Principle of Hope; MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass
Bradford et al (2008), New World Order in Contemporary Children’s Literature. Utopian
Transformations, Palgrave Mc Milan, New York
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Indicator, South Africa, 15 (1), Autumn, pp. 8-12
Burke, P. J. & Stets, J. (2000), Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory. Washington State University
Butler, J. (1999), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion Of Identity, Routledge, New
York and London
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Coetzee, J. M. (1999), Disgrace, Penguin Groups. New York
Chou, K. (2009), ‘This place being South Africa’: Reading race, sexual power in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. University of Michigan
Croux, M. (2005), Presentations of Masculinities in A Selection Of Male-Authored Post-Apartheid Novels. University Of Stellenbosch
Du Pisano, K. (2001), Puritanism Transformed Afrikaner Masculinities In The Apartheid And
Post-Apartheid Period In Morel, R. (2001); 157-176
Epstein, D. (1998), Marked Men: Whiteness and Masculinity. Agenda 37:49-59
Foucault, M. (1984), Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias. MIT Press
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Africa Studies 29.2:432 – 444
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Political Economy No. 100:23-37, ISSN 0505-6244
Hawkins, F. (2015), Reading the Golden City: Spatial Representation and Urban Semiotics in the Works of Ivan Vladislavic. Queens’s University, Kingston, Ontario - Canada
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Karwoska, K. (2013), Literary Spaces in the selected works of J. M. Coetzee; Silesian Studies in Anglophone Culture and Literatures 2. Peter Lang Edition
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Kok, M.S (2008), An Investigation of Masculinity in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Nelson Mandela
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Sam, C. A. (2019). The Making of the New Man in Contemporary African Fiction: A Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts, 1(1), 59–73. https://doi.org/10.47963/jla.v1i1.86
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