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This study traces, in J.M. Coetzee’s fictional and non-fictional production, an imaginative and intellectual masterplot deriving from Coetzee’s perception of European presence in (South) Africa as having its origin in an act of illegitimate penetration and fraudulent visitation. In Coetzee’s novels, the historical and political problem of a hostile occupation and unfair distribution of the land finds a correspondence in the domestic space of house and farm, and the uneasy cohabitation of its occupants, along with the relation between hosts and guests. The seminal dimension of the categories of penetration and visitation is highlighted, as these are shown to operate not only on a spatial level but also on an epistemological, physical, psychological, hermeneutic, metafictional and ethical one: we encounter literary and psychological secrets that resist decipherment, bodies that cannot be penetrated, writers depicted as intruders, parents that ask to be welcomed by their children.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Critical Appropriations and Hermeneutic Resistance
Part 1: Penetration and Visitation in South Africa
Penetration: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country
Resistance: Waiting for the Barbarians
Parasitism: Life & Times of Michael K and Age of Iron
Visitation: Disgrace
Part 2: The Writer as Host and Guest
Secrecy: Foe
(Un)belonging: Boyhood, Youth and Summertime
Intrusion: The Master of Petersburg and Slow Man
Fidelities: Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year
Works Cited
Index