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On Being Stuck
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This chapter considers J.M. Coetzee’s complex (and partly fictionalized) autobiographical project, Scenes from Provincial Life, comprised of Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002), and Summertime (2009), in which Coetzee dramatizes an-other self’s desire for the posture of the anti-political by staging a form of disaffection that refuses metropolitan expectation at the same time that it models itself on metropolitan explorations of the desire for artistic autonomy. Through close reading of the works, and reference across Coetzee’s oeuvre to his interest in the possibility of an Erasmian nonposition, the chapter canvasses theories of boredom, addresses questions of genre, and considers demands placed on writers in what Coetzee has called, with varying degrees of irony, the ‘provinces of history’. To this end, it considers the usefulness of reading alongside the Scenes an illuminating and hitherto unremarked intertext, Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.
Title: On Being Stuck
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This chapter considers J.
M.
Coetzee’s complex (and partly fictionalized) autobiographical project, Scenes from Provincial Life, comprised of Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002), and Summertime (2009), in which Coetzee dramatizes an-other self’s desire for the posture of the anti-political by staging a form of disaffection that refuses metropolitan expectation at the same time that it models itself on metropolitan explorations of the desire for artistic autonomy.
Through close reading of the works, and reference across Coetzee’s oeuvre to his interest in the possibility of an Erasmian nonposition, the chapter canvasses theories of boredom, addresses questions of genre, and considers demands placed on writers in what Coetzee has called, with varying degrees of irony, the ‘provinces of history’.
To this end, it considers the usefulness of reading alongside the Scenes an illuminating and hitherto unremarked intertext, Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite.
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