ABSTRACT This essay aims to study rationality and otherness in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe. Susan Barton, the female protagonist in the book, is rational and struggles for power and independence in the society of the Enlightenment where the story is set. She is seen as non-rational, less valuable and as Other of the white, European male due to her gender.             Friday is male, but non-white and he is perceived as Other as well because of the colour of his skin. Although Friday is mute he tries to communicate, but his ways of communication are often ignored by others.             Through the representation of these characters Coetzee subverts the conventional idea that rationality is linked to the white European male.

Tsui Yuk-Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-91). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction: Autonomous vs Relational Selves --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- The Relational Self in J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter Three --- The Relational Self in J. M. Coetzee's Youth --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion --- p.86 / Works Cited --- p.87

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-21T12:11:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1117323 bytes, checksum: d8c17e1b530e74150adf24a3a97c099f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-21T12:11:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1117323 bytes, checksum: d8c17e1b530e74150adf24a3a97c099f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-31 / The purpose of this text is to analyze the novel The lives of animals, by South-African professor and novelist, J. M. Coetzee, having metafiction as a focus. The lives of animals is constructed upon two striking reports resulting from lectures delivered by J. M. Coetzee at Princeton University, in the United States, in 1997; eventually, Coetzee transformed that material into a novel, giving voice to the writer – his seminal character and alter ego – Elizabeth Costello. These are two lectures in which the writer defends the basic rights of non-human animals. Besides this, J. M. Coetzee’s work calls our attention to the metaficcional devices employed in the narratives. For the discussion of metafiction, we use Hutcheon (1980; 1991) and Waugh (1984). We employ metaficcional principles in the analysis of Coetzee’s text, not merely as an illustration, but to verify how important and lasting this arrangement is in contemporary literature. Since The lives of animals is a novel in which both the life and rights of non-human animals are in the foreground, we articulate metareference with theories about power relations, so as to corroborate the cruelty inflicted on non-human animals. The results presented reveal both the relevance and adequacy of metafiction in the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. / Este texto objetiva analisar o livro A Vida dos Animais (2009), do professor universitário e romancista sul-africano J. M. Coetzee, à luz da teoria da metaficção. A Vida dos Animais traz-nos relatos contundentes de duas palestras que J. M. Coetzee proferiu na Universidade de Princeton, nos Estados Unidos, em 1997; posteriormente, Coetzee transformou aquele material em romance, cedendo a voz à escritora – sua personagem seminal e alter ego – Elizabeth Costello. São duas palestras que a romancista apresentou nas quais defende direitos básicos dos animais não-humanos. Além disso, a obra de J. M. Coetzee nos chama a atenção para os recursos metaficcionais empregados nas narrativas. Na leitura desse construto, recorreremos aos teóricos da metarreferência como Hutcheon (1980; 1991) e Waugh (1984). Empregamos os postulados da metaficção na análise do texto coetzeeano não só como ilustração, mas para verificar a importância e perenidade desse arranjo na literatura contemporânea. Por tratar-se de um romance em que a vida e o direito dos animais ganham destaque, aliamos os princípios metarreferentes a teorias que abordam relações de poder, de modo a referendar a crueldade a que os animais não-humanos são submetidos. Os resultados da análise apresentada ratificam a relevância e adequação da metaficção no que diz respeito à articulação entre ética e estética.

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Coetzee’s last novel Diary of a Bad Year (2007) has an intriguing triple-voiced narrative structure and deals with the grey area of shame. The narrative is divided between a writer, his written contribution to a book called “Strong Opinions”, and his secretary’s thoughts about both the opinions in the manuscript and her employer’s circumstances. This essay explores the relation between form and theme in Diary of a Bad Year; to see in what way these two fundamental elements of the novel intervene and support each other. By doing so the narrative structure is read through Freud’s structural model of personality, whereby each narrator’s voice is related to the notions of the super-ego, the ego and the id. In other words, this essay argues that the specific threefold narrative structure in Diary of a Bad Year, by reflecting the interrelated parts of human identity, helps in creating and developing the theme of shame, which only exists connected to the human psyche. This connection in turn gives special meaning to the entire narratology of the novel.

In this dissertation, I argue that accounts of cosmopolitan literature tend to equate cosmopolitanism with sympathetic feeling. I further contend that sympathy is in fact implicitly central to a wider body of contemporary cosmopolitan theory. I distinguish between two strains of cosmopolitan thought that depend upon two distinct models of feeling: “critical cosmopolitanism,” which depends upon a cognitive-evaluative model of sympathy, and “affective cosmopolitanism,” which depends upon a relational model. Both branches of cosmopolitanism envision sympathy as perfectly human or humane; they gloss over the potential for feeling shame in cosmopolitan encounters. The minority of scholarship that does consider shame in relation to cosmopolitan practice also reifies shame as ideally human or humane. Whether through sympathy or shame, cosmopolitan subjects become cosmopolitan through feeling. I offer readings of J.M. Coetzee’s later fiction in order to critique the idealization of feeling as distinctly cosmopolitan. Coetzee’s work, I conclude, suggests another model for cosmopolitanism, one which foregrounds the limits of feeling for realizing mutuality and equality. / Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2012-06-26 10:17:59.252

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

<p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att identifiera och analysera maktrelationerna i J. M. Coetzees roman Disgrace. Främst analyseras genusrelationerna och då i huvudsak i anslutning till huvudkarktären David Lurie. Det har också lagts stor vikt vid hur svarta och vita förhåller sig till varandra.</p><p>Studien har visat att maktrelationerna mellan romanens karaktärer både sam- och motverkar, samt är föränderliga. Huvudkaraktären besitter många betydelsefulla maktaspekter och har därför möjlighet att utnyttja den unga studenten Melanie sexuellt. Paradoxalt är detta också orsaken till att hon kan anmäla detta, då hennes underläge är så totalt att anmälan utan problem kan ses som befogad.</p><p>Mellan karaktären Petrus och huvudkaraktärens dotter Lucy är maktförhållandet mer komplext då Lucy är vit och kvinna, medan Petrus är svart och man. Deras maktrelation går från Lucys fördel – då de förhåller sig som svart och vit till varandra – till Petrus fördel – som man och kvinna. Detta sker genom deras egna sociala genuskonstruktioner som i sin tur tar sin näring i Lucys fysiska upplevelser: både våldtäkten och graviditeten som den orsakar.</p>