Exploding the rules of the game: J.M. Coetzee writing South Africa.

Queen's Quarterly | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

Against Totalitarian States

J.M. COETZEE, unlike many other South African writers, including fellow Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, has always rejected being identified as a "South African writer." This may seem odd for one so committed to writing as an ethical form; but Coetzee, together with fellow South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, was adamant: to make one's cultural capital as an artist off possession of the anti-apartheid label was to diminish the art. For it is not difficult to create art that identifies apartheid as a crime against humanity. What is more ...

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