If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we
are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty …

Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a
range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of …

This book explores the relationship between race and class among middle-class Christians
in South Africa. The book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of …

Disgrace can be read as a deliberation on rape in all its complexity, articulating and
commenting upon many of the positions typical of the radical feminism of the seventies …

Two of South African literature's best-known titles from the turn of the twenty-first century are
works of campus fiction that rarely get recognized as such. In this article I read JM Coetzee's …

The action of Disgrace, JM Coetzee's academic novel about the professional and personal
fall of an English professor, highlights, literally and figuratively, the incineration of …

Introduction been infrequent. A themed volume of Ariel (35 (1&2), 2004) entitled “Law,
Literature, Postcoloniality”, and the inclusion of a chapter devoted to law and literature in …

In this dissertation I argue that contemporary liberal politics masquerades as a type of
progressive civil rights movement when it is actually a conservative neoliberal strategy to …

Abstract The Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee is known for addressing uncomfortable and
unanswerable questions through his novels, often having autobiographical traces and …

Since the publication of JM Coetzee's first post-apartheid novel, Disgrace, a number of
scholars have noted the ways that this text encourages its readers to re-think their …