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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
No full textNobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Biographies -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- 1. Post-Apartheid Literature: A Personal View -- 2. Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text -- 3. Coetzee and Gordimer -- 4. Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa -- 5. Border Crossings: Self and Text -- 6. Sex, Comedy and Influence: Coetzee's Beckett -- Part II: Theory -- 7. Writing Desire Responsibly -- 8. Literature, History and Folly -- 9. Queer Bodies -- 10. Eating (Dis)Order: From Metaphoric Cannibalism to Cannibalistic Metaphors -- 11. Acts of Mourning -- 12. Sublime Abjection -- 13. Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations -- 14. Disrupting Inauthentic Readings: Coetzee's Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- YNobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
J. M. Coetzee et la littérature européenne
No full textAuteur majeur des lettres anglaises depuis une trentaine d'années, désormais traduit et commenté dans le monde entier, J. M. Coetzee est encore peu étudié en France et souvent perçu à travers le filtre post-colonial. Or, le romancier sud-africain est aussi un lecteur assidu des plus grands écrivains européens de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. Depuis ses débuts, il entretient un dialogue constant avec ses prédécesseurs. Les douze essais de ce volume cernent les contours de cet intertexte qui se développe de Terres de crépuscule à L'Homme ralenti et l'analysent. Virgile, Defoe, Dostoïevski, Kafka, Beckett apparaissent comme les interlocuteurs les plus importants, derrière lesquels se profilent Nietzsche, Rilke, T. S. Eliot et bien d'autres : poètes, romanciers, autobiographes, philosophes. L'intérêt proprement critique du repérage de ces sources est évident. Mais, s'agissant d'un auteur qui a vécu la plus grande partie de sa vie sous l'apartheid, le travail critique même oblige à s'interroger sur les rapports de la littérature et de l'histoire. À leur carrefour se situe le classique : l'ensemble des œuvres humaines que J. M. Coetzee définit comme ce qui survit à la barbarie parce qu'hommes et femmes ne peuvent s'en passer à aucun prix. Sous l'apartheid et dans la nouvelle Afrique du Sud, il affirme la nécessité du classique et celle d'une littérature qui, tendue elle-même vers un devenir-classique, transmette ses pouvoirs éthiques et politiques
Slow man
No full text1st American ed. J. M. Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia). A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Afroleius valerieae Coetzee, 2014, sp. nov.
No full textAfroleius valerieae sp. nov. (Figs 9, 10, 11) Species diagnosis. Notogastral and epimeral surfaces with small round foveae; surfaces of prodorsum and pteromorph reticulate; octotaxic system consisting of porose areas; opening of bothridium directed ventrally; bothridial seta clavate, head smooth, stalk short, directed dorsally; rostral seta long, thickly barbed; lamellar seta long, minutely barbed, robust, directed medially; notogaster with large depressions antero-medially to im; postanal porose area present; dorsal dens on tarsus I conical, dens on tarsus II spur-like; genu I distally with dorsal and ventral cusps antiaxially; genu II distally with lateral cusp. Dimensions. Holotype: (female) length 333, width 218. Paratypes: males (n= 18): length 304 (283–321), width 186 (158–203); females (n= 16): length 326 (314–337); width 208 (192–216). Prodorsum (Figs 9 A, C, 10 A, B, D–E). Rostral margin rounded, transparent anterior tegument forming two to three ridges; prodorsal surface reticulate; lamella wide, extending over lateral margin of prodorsum; steep decline of prodorsum anterior to lamellar apices with band of small granules; thick layer of cerotegument sometimes present on prodorsum, forming elongate hexagonal cells, easily detachable (Fig. 10 B); rostral seta long (~ 35), thickly barbed, inserted at anterior apex of tutorium; lamellar seta long (~ 36), minutely barbed, robust, curved medially, apices touching; interlamellar seta minute (~ 6); bothridial opening directed ventrally; bothridial seta clavate, head mostly smooth, minutely barbed in some specimens, directed dorsally; length of bothridial seta from point of emerging from bothridium to tip of seta ~ 53 (51–56). Notogaster (Figs 9 A, C, 10 A, C). Surface of notogaster with small, round foveae, inner surface of foveae minutely granulate; octotaxic system consisting of small, round porose areas (Fig. 10 C); notogastral setae minute (~ 6); orifice of opisthosomal gland very small, situated medially to A 1; large depressions antero-medially to im present; surface of pteromorph reticulate. Podosoma and gnathosoma (Figs 9 B, C, 10 D). Surface of mentum and epimeral region with small round foveae; subcapitular seta a short (~ 7), smooth, m slightly longer (~ 12), finely barbed, h short (~ 5), smooth; genal notch present, genal tooth short, broad; epimeral setae very short; epimeral setation (epimeres I–IV) 2 - 1-2 - 2. Ventral plate (Fig. 9 B). Surface of genital plate slightly uneven; surface of anal plate foveate; ventral plate with large foveae; postanal porose area small, round, situated more or less at level of border of posterior notogastral tectum. Legs (Fig. 10 F). Setation similar to A. floridus comb. nov.; dorsal integument of tarsi I, II and IV and tibiae I, II and IV thick; large, conical dorsal dens on tarsus I; pointed dens on tarsus II; genu I distally with large ventral and slightly smaller dorsal cusp antiaxially; genu II with large lateral cusp antiaxially; tarsus IV antiaxially with well developed diagonal tectum running from insertion of ft towards proximo-lateral base of segment; femur IV ventrally with wide tectum; femora I–IV, trochanters III–IV antiaxially with fine striae. Material examined. Holotype: Database no. 2127.8. 1, Makhado 23 °02’S, 30 °06’E, litter underneath dense shrubs, 3.viii. 1982 leg. C.M. Engelbrecht. Paratypes: from the same sample; 16 males and 14 females deposited in the Acarology Collection of the National Museum (Database no 2127.8.2); 2 males and 2 females deposited in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (Database no: NMSA-Aca 20010, Type 4032). Additional material: Litter from various biomes of the eastern, northern and central parts of South Africa (habitat types according to Mucina & Rutherford 2006). Grassland: Bergville 28 ° 47 'S, 29 ° 29 'E 26.i. 1982 CME; Frankfort 27 ° 17 'S, 28 ° 21 'E 18.i. 1982 CME; Heilbron 27 ° 15 'S, 27 ° 56 'E 19.i. 1982 CME; Lindley 27 ° 52 'S, 27 ° 55 'E 6.iv. 1964 DJK; Middelburg 25 ° 45 'S, 29 ° 28 'E 30.viii. 1982 CME; Parys 26 ° 53 'S, 27 ° 26 'E 20.x. 1981 JJBD; Reitz 27 ° 43 'S, 28 ° 13 'E 18.i. 1982 CME; Sasolburg 26 ° 53 'S, 27 ° 46 'E 19.i. 1982 CME; Settlers 24 ° 51 'S, 28 ° 32 'E 30.viii. 1982 CME; Vrede 27 ° 55 'S, 29 °09'E 6.iv. 1964 DJK; Winterton 28 ° 50 'S, 29 ° 35 'E 26.i. 1982 CME. Indian Ocean Coastal Belt: Kingsburgh 30 °03'S, 30 ° 52 'E 1963 AJE; Mtunzini 28 ° 57 'S, 31 ° 45 'E 19.iv. 1965 GN; Scottburgh 30 ° 16 'S, 30 ° 30 'E 9.ii. 1982 CME; Stanger 29 ° 21 'S, 31 ° 16 'E 8.ii. 1982 CME; Savanna: Aventura, Blydepoort 24 ° 35 'S, 30 ° 46 'E 26.viii. 1982 LC; Gilead 23 ° 41 'S, 28 ° 52 'E 8.iii. 1983 CME; Greytown 28 ° 51 'S, 30 ° 28 'E 27.i. 1982 CME; Izingolweni 30 ° 46 'S, 30 ° 10 'E 10.ii. 1982 CME; Komatiepoort 25 ° 26 'S, 31 ° 56 'E 2.ix. 1982 CME; Levubu 23 °03'S, 30 ° 18 'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Mabula Game Lodge 24 ° 44 'S, 27 ° 55 'E 9.iii. 1983 CME; Makhado 23 °02'S, 30 °06'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Makhado District 23 °02'S, 29 ° 54 'E 5.viii. 1982 CME; Mbombela 25 ° 28 'S, 30 ° 58 'E 28.ii. 1987 RE; Mokopane 24 ° 10 'S, 29 °00'E 8.iii. 1983 CME; Pietermaritzburg 29 ° 55 'S, 30 ° 38 'E 9.ii. 1982 CME; Punda Maria 22 ° 47 'S, 30 ° 54 'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Rustenburg 25 ° 42 'S, 27 ° 15 'E 21.iv. 1962 AJE; Soutpansberg area 23 °03'S, 30 °03'E 4.viii. 1982 CME; Thabazimbi 24 ° 37 'S, 27 ° 23 'E 9.iii. 1983 CME; Thohoyandou 22 ° 58 'S, 30 ° 29 'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Vaalwater 24 ° 17 'S, 28 °06'E 8.iii. 1983 CME. Remarks. The octotaxic system consisting of porose areas and the ventrally directed bothridium of A. valerieae sp. nov. are the most easily recognised characters to distinguish it from other Afroleius species. Some specimens display heavily sclerotized borders to all epimeres. Thick cerotegument is also present on the prodorsum and notogaster of some specimens of Afroleius crassus Coetzee, 2013. This species is widely distributed in grassland and savanna regions of South Africa, and is mostly absent from forests. Etymology. This species is named for Dr. Valerie Behan-Pelletier in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Oribatology, particularly the Ceratozetoidea.Published as part of Coetzee, Louise, 2014, Afroleius floridus (Mahunka, 1985) comb. nov. and three new Afroleius Mahunka, 1984 species (Acari: Oribatida: Mycobatidae) from South Africa, pp. 553-573 in Zootaxa 3889 (4) on pages 568-571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/22898
Is This the Gate?: J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and Its Operatic Adaptation
No full textPremiered at the 2024 Adelaide Festival, Is This the Gate? is an opera excerpt composed by Nicholas Lens and set to a libretto written by J. M. Coetzee. It is adapted from the last section of Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello (2003), revolving around the eponymous character’s trial before the gate in the afterworld. This article explores the literary, musical and dramaturgical elements of Is This the Gate? and contends that the adaptation, despite its brevity and incompleteness, indexes and reworks some of the most important intertexts, localities and motifs that connect Coetzee’s early and late works. Allusions to Kafka and Dante frame the scenario for Costello in limbo—a state mirroring a writer’s late-in-life predicament—while references to Australia’s weather and fauna reflect Coetzee’s relationship to his South African roots and adopted home. Further, Costello’s conviction that she is “a secretary of the invisible” holds clues to Coetzee’s deployment of voices and fictional personae since his debut, Dusklands (1974). The last few acts of the opera excerpt evoke themes of desire and mortality that chime with Coetzee’s other Costello narratives, including his latest collection, The Pole and Other Stories (2023). The adaptation ends with Costello’s declaration of her subjectivity, which suggests a writer’s yearning and resolution to go beyond the threshold of life and death
The experimental line in fiction
No full textThis chapter considers what J. M. Coetzee has called ‘the experimental line’ within the works of black and white writers in English and Afrikaans, showing how, during the apartheid years, its playfulness and experimentalism was often passed over in critical accounts intent on identifying a literature of witness and solidarity. It also traces the continuing ‘line’ of experimentation in post-apartheid literature
Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex
No full textTwo new species within the Anopheles gambiae complex are here described and named. Based on molecular and bionomical evidence, the An. gambiae molecular "M form" is named Anopheles coluzzii Coetzee & Wilkerson sp. n., while the "S form" retains the nominotypical name Anopheles gambiae Giles. Anopheles quadriannulatus is retained for the southern African populations of this species, while the Ethiopian species is named Anopheles amharicus Hunt, Wilkerson & Coetzee sp. n., based on chromosomal, cross-mating and molecular evidence
F. Coetzee : Onderstepoort staff
No full textScanned image of a photographic glass-plate negativeF. Coetzee, Onderstepoort staff memebre from early 40's to mid 40's. Details unknownDigitised by the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2019ab201
Afroleius inae Coetzee, 2014, sp. nov.
No full textAfroleius inae sp. nov. (Figs 7, 8, 11) Species diagnosis. Dorsal surface reticulate, inner surface of cavities with fine sculpture; ventral surface with round foveae; surfaces of prodorsum and pteromorph reticulate with some cerotegument; octotaxic system consisting of saccules; bothridial seta clavate, head barbed, stalk thick, directed antero-dorsally; rostral seta of medium length, barbed; lamellar seta subequal in length to ro, with coarse surface; postanal porose area present; large dorsal dens on tarsi I and II; genu I distally with dorsal and ventral cusps antiaxially; genu II distally with lateral cusp. Dimensions. Holotype: (female) length 251, width 170. Paratypes: males (n = 5): length 236 (232–243) width 163 (160–169); females (n = 5): length 257 (250–270), width 179 (170–185). Prodorsum (Figs 7 A, C, 8 A–C). Rostral margin anteriorly with two small notches, small transparent U-shaped area between notches (similar to A. floridus comb. nov. Fig. 1 B); genal notch absent, genal tooth fused to lateral margin of rostrum, represented by small carina; prodorsal surface reticulate with some cerotegument present; lamella wide, extending over lateral margin of prodorsum, long, reaching well over ¾ of prodorsal length (Figs 8 A, C); rostral seta of medium length, (~ 20 ), coarsely barbed, inserted at anterior apex of tutorium; lamellar seta of medium length (~ 21), coarse, inserted on lamellar apex; interlamellar seta minute (~ 4); bothridial opening directed ventro-laterally, with overlapping slit in ventral wall of bothridium; bothridial seta clavate, head barbed, stalk of medium length, thick, directed antero-dorsally; length of bothridial seta from point of emerging from bothridium to tip of seta ~ 54 (51–57). Notogaster (Figs 7 A, C, 8 A). Surface of notogaster with reticulation, inner surface of cavities with fine sculpture; octotaxic system consisting of saccules, notogastral setae minute (~ 5); orifice of opisthosomal gland very small, situated postero-laterally to lp; surface of pteromorph similar to that of notogaster, peripheral area with fine granules. Podosoma and gnathosoma (Figs 7 B, C). Surface of mentum anteriorly with faint foveae, posteriorly with shallow, faint grooves; subcapitular seta a of medium length, smooth, m of medium length, finely barbed, h short, smooth; genal notch absent; genal tooth represented by short carina; epimeral setae very short; epimeral setation (epimeres I–IV) 2 - 1-2 - 2; epimeral surface laterally with large foveae, medially foveae becoming smaller and fainter. Ventral plate (Fig. 7 B). Surface of genital plate smooth; surface of anal plate foveate; ventral plate with large foveae; postanal porose area present, covered by posterior notogastral tectum. Legs (Fig. 8 D). Setation of all legs similar to A. floridus comb. nov.; dorsal integument of tarsi I, II, IV and tibiae I, II, IV thick; femora I–IV, trochanters III–IV antiaxially with fine striae; surfaces of tarsi and tibiae I and II finely granulate; tarsi I and II with large, pointed, distally directed dens; tarsus II short, broad; genua I and II distally with ventral and dorsal cusps antiaxially; femur IV ventrally with wide tectum. Material examined (Fig. 11). Holotype: Database no. 1930.7. 1, Ballito 29 ° 31 ’S, 31 ° 13 ’E, litter underneath dense indigenous shrubs, 2.ix. 1982, leg. C.M. Engelbrecht. Paratypes: from the same sample; 4 males and 4 females deposited in the Acarology Collection of the National Museum (Database no 1930.7.2); 1 male and 1 female deposited in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (Database no: NMSA-Aca 20009, Type 4031). Additional material: Litter from forests or wooded patches from various biomes of the eastern and north eastern parts of South Africa (habitat types according to Mucina & Rutherford 2006). Indian Ocean Coastal Belt: Ballito 29 ° 31 'S 31 ° 13 'E 9.ii. 1982 CME; Kwambonambi 28 ° 41 'S 32 ° 12 'E 11.xi. 1993 JPE; Leisure Bay 31 °00'S 31 ° 14 'E 10.ii. 1982 CME; Stanger 29 ° 20 'S 31 ° 17 'E 8.ii. 1982 CME. Coastal forest: Cape Vidal 28 °07'S 32 ° 33 'E 9.xi. 1993 JPE; Richard's Bay 28 ° 51 'S 32 °02'E 11.xi. 1993 JPE; St Lucia 28 ° 16 'S 32 ° 29 'E 8.xi. 1993 JPE. Grassland: Frankfort 27 ° 17 'S 28 ° 22 'E 18.i. 1982 CME; Golden Gate Highlands National Park 28 ° 31 'S, 28 ° 36 'E 16.x. 1985 SvdML; Heilbron 27 ° 19 'S 27 ° 58 'E 18.i. 1982 CME; Lydenburg 25 °08'S 30 ° 32 'E 5.ii. 2013 DdS; Pomeroy 28 ° 47 'S 30 ° 24 'E 27.i. 1982 CME; Savanna: Greytown 28 ° 47 'S 30 ° 31 'E 27.i. 1982 CME; Inchanga 29 ° 42 'S 30 ° 40 'E 30.iii. 1982 JP; Makhado 23 °02'S 30 °03'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Mtubatuba 28 ° 24 'S 32 ° 12 'E 11.xi. 1993 JPE; Thohoyando 23 °00'S 31 ° 38 'E 3.viii. 1982 CME; Vernon Crookes Nature Reserve 30 ° 16 'S 3 °035'E 15.i. 1992 LNL. Remarks. Afroleius inae sp. nov. is recognized by the long lamellae, rostral and lamellar setae of similar length and unique dorsal sculpturing, being reticulate with fine sculpture within the cavities. The stalk of the bothridial seta is slightly thicker than in the species described above. The absence of the genal incision and the genal tooth being fused to the rostral margin is rare in Ceratozetoidea. This character state is expressed in Nuhivabates Niemi & Behan-Pelletier, 2003 (Mycobatidae) as well as in some Melanozetes species (Ceratozetidae) (Behan-Pelletier 1986; Niemi & Behan-Pelletier 2003). Afroleius inae sp. nov. is distributed widely in South Africa, occurring along the east coast region, grasslands of the interior and savanna of the northern regions. Etymology. This species is named for my sister, Ina Engelbrecht, in recognition of her encouragement and provision of material.Published as part of Coetzee, Louise, 2014, Afroleius floridus (Mahunka, 1985) comb. nov. and three new Afroleius Mahunka, 1984 species (Acari: Oribatida: Mycobatidae) from South Africa, pp. 553-573 in Zootaxa 3889 (4) on pages 564-565, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/22898
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