Coetzee, John Maxwell
About John Maxwell Coetzee
Reviews
Mbao, Wamuwi. "JM Coetzee's Late Essays." The Johannesburg Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2017
Elkin, Lauren. "Late Essays." The Guardian, 12 Oct. 2017
Parks, Tim. "In Some Sense True." The London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2016
Woodward, Gerard. "The Good Story." The Independent, 7 May 2015
Cooper, Rand Richards. "Portrait of the Writer as an Afrikaner." The New York Times, 2 Nov. 1997
Interviews
Malan, Rian. "Only the Big Questions." Time, 5 Oct. 2003
Criticism
Bhattacharya, Sourit. "Against His Self, against His Time: Modernist Aesthetic, Post-War London, and the Failure of Imagination in J. M. Coetzee's Youth." Textual Practice, vol. 33, no. 1, 2019
Bump, Jerome F. "Emotion in Ethics, Rhetoric, and the Creative Process: The Tragedy of Coetzee's Woman Warrior." Critique, vol. 60, no. 1, 2019
During, Simon. "Kafka and Coetzee." Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism, Bergam and Moses (eds.), 2019
Baarspul, Matthijs, and Paul Franssen. "Settling for 'Something Less': J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man and the Shakespearean Bed-Trick Motif." English Studies, vol. 99, no. 5-6, 2018
Bekers, Elisabeth. "Creative Challenges to Captivity: Slave Authorship in Black British Neo-Slave Narratives." Life Writing, vol. 15, no. 1, 2018
Bolin, J. S. "Thresholds of the Novel: Realism, the Inhuman, the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee's Foe." Novel, vol. 51, no. 3, 2018
Dalley, Hamish. "The Deaths of Settler Colonialism." Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018
Danta, Chris. Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor, 2018
Dimitriu, Ilena. "J. M. Coetzee's The Schooldays of Jesus (2016)." Current Writing, vol. 30, no. 1, 2018
Duncan, Rebecca. South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-Apartheid Imagination and Beyond, 2018
Gervasio, Nicole. "The Power of the Weak Signifier: Wordsworth's Lucy in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy." Modern Language Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, 2018
Krog, Antjie. "To Write Liberty." Current Writing, vol. 30, no. 1, 2018
Moffat, Nicola. "Rape and the (Animal) Other: Making Monsters in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." Signs, vol. 43, no. 2, 2018
Murphy, Robinson O. "Black Friday, Queer Atlantic." Research in African Literatures, vol. 49, no. 2, 2018
Weinberger, Christopher. "Alterity and the Ethics of the Novel in J. M. Coetzee's Quasi-Realism." Fault Lines of Modernity, Millet and Figueira (eds.), 2018
Anker, Elizabeth. "Why We Love Coetzee; or, The Childhood of Jesus and the Funhouse Critique." Critique and Postcritique, Anker and Felski (eds.), 2017
Baderoon, Gabeba. "Animal Likenesses; Dogs and the Boundary of the Human in South Africa." Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, 2017
Hayes, Patrick, and Jan Wilm. Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J. M. Coetzee, 2017
Jacobs, J. U. "A Bridging Fiction: The Migrant Subject in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus." Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2017
Matias, Daniel. Wooden Man?: Masculinities in the Work of J. M. Coetzee (Boyhood, Youth and Summertime), 2017
Moonsamy, Nedine. "'Not the Story You Wanted to Hear.' Reading Chick-Lit in J. M. Coetzee's Summertime." Social Dynamics, vol. 43, no. 3, 2017
Rajiva, Jay. Postcolonial Parabola, 2017
Rutherford, Jennifer, and Anthony Uhlmann. J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas and Things, 2017
Saxena, Nishtha. "J. M. Coetzee's Aesthetics of Ahimsa: Towards a Gandhian Reading of The Lives of Animals and Disgrace." English in Africa, vol. 44, no. 2, 2017
Shabot, Sara Cohen. "Fleshing Out the Ambiguous Body: J. M. Coetzee's The Humanities in Africa as a Critique of Binary Conceptions of Embodiment." Frontiers, vol. 38, no. 1, 2017
Taneja, Preti. "Fiction and the Possibility of the Ethical: Rewriting Shakespeare and the Intertextuality of Gayatri Spivak." Rewriting Shakespeare's Plays for and by the Contemporary Stage, Dobson and Rivier-Arnaud (eds.), 2017
Wenzel, Jennifer. "Stratigraphy and Empire." Anthropocene Reading, Menely and Taylor (eds.), 2017
Attridge, Derek. "The Critic as Lover." Literary Activism: Perspectives, A. Chaudhuri (ed.), 2016
Atwell, David. "Reading the Coetzee Papers." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
Clarkson, Carrol. "Inner Worlds." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
Corngold, Stanley. "A Meditation on Prizes." Modern Language Notes, vol. 131, no. 5, 2016
Dalleo, Raphael. "The Work of Teaching Literature in the Age of Mechanical Education." Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, vol. 131, no. 5, 2016
Hallemeier, Katherine. "J. M. Coetzee's Literature of Hospice." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 62, no. 3, 2016
Jacobs, J. U. Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction, 2016
Jose, Nicholas. "Coetzee in China." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
López, Maria J., and Kai Wiegandt. "J. M. Coetzee and the Non-English Literary Traditions." European Journal of English Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2016
Macaskill, Brian. "I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine, William Kentridge & J. M. Coetzee; or: Machines, Death, and Performance as Prelude to Reading Slow Man." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
Meihuizen, Nicholas Leiden. Achieving Autobiographical Form, 2016
Monticelli, Daniele. "From Dissensus to Inoperativity: The Strange Case of J. M. Coetzee's Michael K." English Studies, vol. 97, no. 5-6, 2016
Naidu, Sam. "The Emergence of the South African Farm Crime Novel." English in Africa, vol. 43, no. 2, 2016
Nkosi, Lewis, et al. Writing Home: Lewis Nkosi on South African Writing, 2016
Philippou, Eleni. "Dog, Horses, and Red Herrings: The Animal in J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus." Critique, vol. 57, no. 2, 2016
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Aesthetic Judgment of Disgrace." The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Chakrabarti (ed.), 2016
Uhlmann, Anthony. "J. M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real." Textual Practice, vol. 30, no. 3, 2016
Uhlmann, Anthony. "Process and Method in Waiting for the Barbarians." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
Uhlmann, Anthony et al. "Traverses: J. M. Coetzee in the World." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 58, no. 4, 2016
Wilm, Jan. The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee, 2016
Wittenberg, Hermann. "Film and Photography in J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol 58, no. 4, 2016
Araújo, Susana. Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror, 2015
Attwell, David. J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, 2015
Chapman, Michael. "Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee: Nobel Laureates in Their Place and Time." Contested Identities, Marquis et al. (eds.), 2015
Cimarosti, Roberta. "Literacy Stories for Global Wits." ARIEL, vol. 46, no. 1-2, 2015
Haley, Madigan. "Marginal Figures and the Ethos of the Global Novel." Novel, vol. 48, no. 1, 2015
Lochner, Liani. "Literary Form and Contesting the Subject in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger." Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama, Gonzalez and Agostini (eds.), 2015
Smuts, Eckard. "'The Country of His Heart': J. M. Coetzee, Wordsworth and the Karoo Farm." English in Africa, vol. 42, no. 2, 2015
Winkler, Markus. "Towards a Cultural History of Barbarism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present." Barbarism Revisited, Boletsi and Moser (eds.), 2015
Armstrong, Nancy. "The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction." Contemporary Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, 2014
Macaskill, Brian. "J. M. Coetzee: Contrapuntal Mediations." Media Tropes, vol. 4, no. 2, 2014
Marais, Mike. "The Incurious Seeker: Waiting, and the Search for the Stranger in the Fiction of Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee." Media Tropes, vol. 4, no. 2, 2014
Meyers, Jeffrey. "Portraits of a Terrorist: Dostoevsky, Conrad, and Coetzee." Antioch Review, vol. 72, no.1, 2014
Mfune, Damazio. "Doubling the Point on Dusklands: J. M. Coetzee's Dogged Quest for a Post-Cartesian, Embodied and Inter-Subjective Consciousness." Scrutiny 2, vol. 19, no. 2, 2014
Murray, Stuart. "Allegories of the Bioethical: Reading J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year." Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 35, no. 3, 2014
Nuttall, Sarah. "Surface, Depth and the Autobiographical Act." Life Writing, vol. 11, no. 2, 2014
Van Wyk Smith, M. "Rape and the Foundation of Nations in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." English in Africa, vol. 41, no. 1, 2014
Wright, Laura, et al. Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works, 2014
MacFarlane, Elizabeth, Reading Coetzee, 2013
Van Niekerk, Marlene. "The Literary Text in Turbulent Times: An Instrument of Social Cohesion or an Eruption of 'Critical' Bliss. Notes on JM Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K." Acta Academica, vol. 45, no. 4, 2013
Laurencin, Madeleine. "A Polychromatic Approach to the Rainbow Nation Today: Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, Nietverloren and Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee." Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2012
Boehmer, Elleke, et al. J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory, 2009
Poyner, Jane. "Writing under Pressure: A Post-Apartheid Canon?" Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 44, no. 2, 2008
Kauer, Ute. "Nation and Gender: Female Identity in Contemporary South African Writing." Current Writing, vol. 15, no. 2, 2003
Atwell, David. J. M. Coetzee : South Africa and the Politics of Writing, 1993
Works
Novels
The Schooldays of Jesus (2016)
The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
Scenes from Provincial Life (2011)
Summertime (2009)
Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
Slow Man (2005)
Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003)
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)
Disgrace (1999)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997)
The Master of Petersburg (1994)
Age of Iron (1990)
A Land Apart: A South African Reader (1986)
Foe (1986)
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
In the Heart of the Country (1977)
Dusklands (1974)
Poetry
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands (2004)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Late Essays (2017)
The Good Story (2015)
Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011 (2013)
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 (2007)
Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999 (2001)
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992)
White Writing (1988)
Adaptations
Naidoo, Kareesha, and Hermann Wittenberg. "Between Text and Stage: The Theatrical Adaptations of J. M. Coetzee's Foe (2017)." Southern African Theatre Journal, vol. 30, no. 1-3, 2017
Ikas, Karin. "'Integrating the Story into the Grand Landscape of South Africa': Contested Spaces of Sexualized Interracial Terror in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Its Film Adaptation (2016)." Postcolonial Text, vol. 11, no. 4, 2016
Wittenberg, Hermann. "Godard in the Karoo: J. M. Coetzee's Screenplay Adaptation of In the Heart of the Country (2014)." English in Africa, vol. 41, no. 2, 2014
Jacobs, Steve. "Disgrace - Official Trailer." YouTube, 2008
Tait, Theo. "Film Review of Disgrace." The Guardian, 28 Nov. 2009
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Coetzee on Language, Writing and the Pleasure of Reading. CBC/Radio Canada, 27 Jul. 2018
Coetzee with Soledad Constantini. YouTube, 29 May 2018
Conferencia Coetzee. Museo Malba. YouTube, 25 Apr. 2016
Coetzee on Doubling the Point. Literatura Programación, 15 Apr. 2015
Coetzee Reads From The Childhood of Jesus. YouTube, 16 Apr. 2013