‘ATTACHMENT WITH DETACHMENT’: A POST-SECULAR READING OF JM COETZEE’S RECENT FICTION
‘ATTACHMENT WITH DETACHMENT’: A POST-SECULAR READING OF JM COETZEE’S RECENT FICTION
Author(s): Ileana Şora DimitriuSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: J.M. Coetzee; recent fiction; post-secular; ‘attachment with detachment’;
Summary/Abstract: This article takes issue with postmodern allegorical quests as theorized by, for example, Schiralli (1999), Caputo (1997) and Petrolle (2008). While alert to the deconstructive project, these critics wish to reconstruct (as opposed to deconstruct) the value of truth claims in the midst of ontological doubts. The aim is to rehabilitate truth/value claims, while utilising postmodernist deconstruction serving a reconstructive, even spiritual purpose. I shall illustrate this dynamic based on JM Coetzee’s most recent fiction.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 133-141
- Page Count: 9