Index

A

Achterberg, Gerrit, 58 -59, 65 , 67 -68

Adorno, Theodor, 21

African Communist, 92

Afrikaans language, 63 -64

Afrikaner nationalism. See Historiography

Agency, in South African fiction, 3 , 23 -26.

See also Authority, problem of

Age of Iron (Coetzee), 4 , 6 , 118 -25

Alexander, Neville, 108

Allegory, 129 n.7, 132 n.6;

in Foe, 104 , 111 -12;

in Life and Times of Michael K,99

Althusser, Louis, 128 n.6

Aporia, 98

Armbruster, Frank E., 40 -44

Attridge, Derek, 5

Authority, problem of, 118 -19;

in Age of Iron,120 -23;

in Foe, 103 , 115.

See also Agency, in South African fiction

Autobiography, in South Africa, 28

B

Barthes, Roland, 13 , 79

Beckett, Samuel, 9 , 37 , 57 , 128 n.1

Benveniste, Emile, 58

Biko, Stephen, 29 , 74

Black Consciousness, 16 , 27 -28, 73 , 132 n.4

Body, in Foe,116 -17

Botha, P. W., 90

Breytenbach, Breyten, 21

Brink, André, 21

Brink, Carel Fredrik, 45

Burgess, Yvonne, 129 n.2

Buber, Martin, 58 , 67

Butler, Guy, 30 -31

C

Calvinism, 107

Carmichael, Stokely, 28

Carusi, Annamaria, 106 , 117 , 127 -28n.5

Cavafy, C. P., 71

Chapman, Michael, 127 -28n.5

Chomsky, Noam, 4 , 33 , 35 , 130 n.5

Civil war, in Life and Times of Michael K,91

Clingman, Stephen, 12 -13, 70 -71, 91 , 93 , 96

Coetzee, J. M.: biographical details, 3 , 32 -33, 38 , 127 n.1;

critical reputation, 1 -2;

development, 4 -5, 118 -20;

and fictionality, 7 , 15 -17, 101 ;

intellectualism in, 26 ;

Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech by, 108 ;

and linguistics, 10 -11, 33 -34, 128 n.3;

and mathematics, 128 n.2;

and modernism, 4 ;

and postcolonialism, 4 , 20 -23;

and postmodernism, 1 , 4 , 20 -23;

and race, 25 ;

regionalism in, 25 ;

and South African intellectual debates, 26 -34;

and textuality, 119 , 121 -22.

See also individual works

Coetzee, N. A., 45 -46, 130 n.9

Cogito ergo sum. See Descartes, René

Colonialism: discourse of, 6 , 79 ;

episteme, 79 , 93 ;

history of, 14 , 38 , 67

Confession, 112 -13

Conrad, Joseph, 49

D

Deconstruction, 99 -103, 131 n.2

Defoe, Daniel: 74 , 115 ;

Robinson Crusoe,6 , 104 , 106 -8, 133 n.7;

Roxana, 109 -10, 113

Deleuze, Gilles, 102 -3, 133 n.2

Derrida, Jacques. See Deconstruction

Descartes, René, 37 , 51

Dodd, Josephine, 131 n.12

Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (Coetzee), 128 n.6

Douglas, Mary, 60

Dovey, Teresa, 2 , 6 , 47 , 51 , 52 -53, 59 , 106 , 111 , 127 nn.3,4 , 131 n.13, 132 nn.6,10 , 133 n.4

During, Simon, 22

Dusklands (Coetzee), 4 , 5 , 14 , 27 , 32 -33, 35 -58, 65 , 70 , 107 , 119

E

Eckstein, Barbara, 131 n.2

Ethicalism, 97 , 119 -20

F

Failure, poetics of, 59

Farm novel, 96

Fanon, Frantz, 28 , 31 -32

Flaubert, Gustave, 44 -45

Foe (Coetzee), 4 , 5 , 14 , 96 -97, 103 -17

Foucault, Michel, 77 -78, 79 -80, 95 , 102

Freud, Sigmund, 43

Fukuyama, Francis, 134 n.1

Furet, François, 75

Future projection, in South African fiction, 132 n.1

G

Galan, F. W., 19

Gallagher, Susan Van Zanten, 131 n.2

Gardening, in Life and Times of Michael K,94 -97

Gender: in Foe,111 -12;

in In the Heart of the Country,60 -62, 65 ;

in Life and Times of Michael K,94 -97;

in Waiting for the Barbarians,79

Gibbon, Edward, 74 -76

Girard, René, 132 n.9

Goozé, Marjanne, 133 n.4

Gordimer, Nadine, 21 ;

and Burger'sDaughter,24 , 123 ;

and The Conservationist,12 -13;

and July's People,25 , 70 , 93 ;

realism in, 11 -13, 131 n.1;

review of Life and Times of Michael K by, 92 -93, 96 , 100 ;

A Sport of Nature,24 -25

Gräbe, Ina, 104

Gramsci, Antonio, 24 , 89

Gray, Stephen, 104 -5

Guattari, Félix, 102 -3, 133 n.2

H

Haggard, H. Rider, 49

Haluska, Jan, 129 n.7

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 83

Hegel, Georg, 38 , 48 , 51 , 68 , 85

Heraclitus, 95

Historiography: Afrikaner nationalist, 44 -46;

liberal versus radical, 26 -30;

poststructuralist, 77 .

See also History

History: discourse of, 14 ;

first and third world conceptions of, 124 ;

as myth, 72 , 84 -87;

writing of, 76 -78

Ho Chi Minh, 43

Hudson Institute, 40 -43

Hutcheon, Linda, 18 , 20 , 129 n.8

I

In the Heart of the Country (Coetzee), 4 , 5 , 14 , 58 -69, 70 , 82

J

Jakobson, Roman, 58

Jameson, Fredric, 14 , 36 , 38 , 60 , 130 n.11

Jefferson, Ann, 59

Jolly, Rosemary Jane 74

K

Kafka, Franz, 83 , 101 -3, 133 n.4

Kenner, Hugh, 10 , 37

Kermode, Frank, 71 , 72 , 77 , 123

Kirkwood, Mike, 30 -32

Knox-Shaw, Peter, 45 -48, 53 , 54 , 127 n.2, 129 n.3

Kohler, Peter, 47 , 127 n.2

L

Lacan, Jacques. See Dovey, Teresa

La Guma, Alex, 12

Lazarus, Neil, 20 -21

Liberal humanism, 119 -20

Liberal values, in Waiting for the Barbarians,84

Life and Times of Michael K (Coetzee), 4 , 5 , 14 , 58 , 88 -103, 119

Lukács, Georg, 12 , 85

M

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 60

Marais, Michael, 133 n.3

Marcuse, Herbert, 27

Martin, Richard, 131 n.1

Marx, Karl, 85

Marxism. See Historiography

Master-slave relationships, in In the Heart of the Country,62 -63.

See also Hegel, Georg

Memmi, Albert, 31

Metafiction: post-Beckett, 40 ;

and referentiality, 18 ;

situational, 3 , 17 -20; 129 n.7.

See also Narrative discourse

Minor literature, 133 n.5.

See also Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix

Miscegenation, 62

Morphet, Tony, 129 n.9

Morris, Mike, 128 n.6 (Chapter 1)

Mukarovsky, Jan, 19

Multinationalism, policy of, 90

Mythography, 40 , 130 n.8

N

Nabokov, Vladimir, 18 , 100

Narrative discourse, 9 , 13 , 17 -20;

in Age of Iron,120 -23;

in Dusklands,35 -40;

in Foe, 103 -4, 106 -7, 114 -17;

in In the Heart of the Country58 -60;

in Life and Times of Michael K,88 -89, 93 , 97 ;

in Waiting for the Barbarians,70 -73, 86 .

See also Metafiction

Narrative subject, displacement of, 56 -58

National Party, 90

Ndebele, Njabulo, 11 -12, 29 , 128 nn.4,5

Newton, Sir Isaac, 74

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 85 , 98 -99

Nkosi, Lewis, 11 , 25 , 128 n.5

Norval, A. J., 74

Nouveau roman. See Robbe-Grillet, Alain

NUSAS (National Union of South African Students), 29

O

Ohmann, Richard, 74

Olsen, Lance, 131 n.2

P

Parody, in Dusklands,35 , 39 -40, 49 ; 129 n.1

Parry, Benita, 133 -34n.8

Passive voice, as rhetorical strategy, 131 n.3

Paton, Alan, 80

Penner, Dick, 96 , 127 n.3

People's Culture, 15 -17

Posel, Deborah, 74

Postcolonialism, in Coetzee, 4 , 20 -23, 103

Postmodernism, in Coetzee, 1 , 4 , 20 -23

Poulantzas, Nicos, 128 n.6

Prague School, 19 -20

R

Rationality, critique of, 37 -40, 50 -54

Realism, in South African fiction, 10 -13

Representation, in fiction, 13

Revisionism. See Historiography

Rich, Paul, 127 n.2, 132 n.5

Richetti, John J., 110

Ricoeur, Paul, 17 -18

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 58 , 59 -60, 131 n.1

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 6 , 104 , 106 -8, 133 n.7

S

Sachs, Albie, 128 nn.4,5

Said, Edward, 3 , 25 , 34 , 130 n.7

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 38 , 58 , 65 , 68 , 99

SASO (South African Students Organization), 29

Schlebusch Commission, 29

Scholes, Robert, 18 , 129 n.7

Schreiner, Olive, 59 , 104 -6, 110 , 131 n.13

Semiotics, in Waiting for the Barbarians,70 -71, 77 -78

Sepamla, Sipho, 11

Serote, Mongane, 11 , 93

Siegle, Robert, 18

Skalnik, Peter, 132 n.4

Slater, Philip, 61

Slemon, Stephen, 22 -23

Soweto Revolt, 67 , 73

Spengler, Oswald, 38 -39, 85

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 82 , 99 -100, 111 , 114 , 133 -34n.8

SPRO-CAS (Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society), 28 -29

Stadler, Alf, 90 -91

Stevens, Wallace, 58 , 65

Subaltern. See Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

SUNY, Buffalo, 4

Swift, Jonathan, 74

T

Temporality, in Waiting for the Barbarians,86

Thompson, E. P., 128 n.6

Tiffin, Helen, 22 -23

Torture, 123 , 132 n.8;

in Waiting for the Barbarians,79 -80

Total strategy, 73 -74

Turner, Richard, 27 -28

Transgression, in In the Heart of the Country,60 -61

U

UDF (United Democratic Front), 15 -17, 120

University of Texas at Austin, 4 , 9 , 32 -33, 36

V

Van Riebeeck Society, 35 , 45

Vaughan, Michael, 37 , 127 n.2, 129 n.3, 131 n.1

Vietnam war, 25 , 40 -44, 130 n.5

Violence, in Dusklands,53 -55

Visser, Nicholas, 129 n.10

W

Wade, Jean-Phillipe, 74 , 132 nn.4,6

Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 67

Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee), 4 , 5 , 14 , 70 -87, 89 , 93 , 96 , 101 , 119 , 122 , 132 nn.9,10

Watson, Stephen,92

Waugh, Patricia, 18

White, Hayden, 17 , 75

White Writing (Coetzee), 36 , 61 , 96 , 107 , 118 -19, 120

Wikar, Hendrik Jacob, 45

Wright, Derek, 96

Writing: and freedom, 92 , 97 -101, 103 ;

and self-consciousness, 119

Z

Zeno, 53 , 54 , 57