Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

This study offers a detailed analysis of the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, including the novels of the South African and Australian periods, to demonstrate the development of Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of non-normative embodiment. In this illuminating monograph, Pawel Wojtas demonstrates the extent to which Coetzee's multifaceted depictions of disability offer a sustained critique of the ableist implications of political violence and neoliberal inclusionism alike. Exploring a wide range of notions, such as ocularnormativism, mute speech, eco-disability, disability Gothic, dismodernism, autogerontography, and bibliotherapy, Wojtas shows how Coetzee's 'disabled textuality' provokes a sustained meditation on various forms of cultural denigration of disability experience.

Author: Pawel Wojtas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 12/01/2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781399522588