An edition of Dusklands (1974)

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An edition of Dusklands (1974)

Dusklands

  • 3.50 ·
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  • 11 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

J. M. Coetzee's first published fiction includes two novellas. The Vietnam Project is a five–part, first–person story of a mythographer (mythmaker) working for the United States Department of Defense whose job is to write an essay for his overseer Coetzee detailing psychological colonization strategies to deploy against the Vietnamese during the early 1970s. At the other end is The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee, author Coetzee's "integral" translation from Afrikaans of a Boer settler and six Hottentot servants' elephant–hunting expedition in 1760 and their contact with the Namaqua people. The latter is also written in the first person. Together, both narratives share a dialogue about the affected colonizer in the process of colonization, the (re)writing of history, the ethics of captivity, and relationship between the writer and the written, namely author Coetzee's grappling with the idea of complicity. On the whole, Dusklands is a fierce debut that demands close reading and intellectual reckoning.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
125

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Tierras de poniente
Tierras de poniente
2010, Debolsillo
in Spanish - 1. edition.
Cover of: Tierras de poniente
Tierras de poniente
2009, Mondadori
in Spanish
Cover of: Dusklands
Dusklands
1996, Penguin Books
paperback in English
Cover of: Dusklands
Dusklands
1985, Penguin Books
in English

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58 D8 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
125 p. ;
Number of pages
125

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3025864M
Internet Archive
dusklands00coet
ISBN 10
0140071148
LCCN
85006253
Library Thing
93348
Goodreads
3371467

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