«Autre»-Biography: Poetics of Self in J. M. Coetzee's Fictionalized Memoirs

by Angela Müller

Overview

This study explores the poetics and politics of self in J. M. Coetzee's autre-biographical works Scenes from Provincial Life. The author provides a detailed analysis of Coetzee's conception of self in his fictionalized memoirs, as well as of philosophical, aesthetic and political implications of autre-biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631671696
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/14/2016
Edition description:	New
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Angela Müller studied German and English Literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Birmingham. She obtained her PhD in English Literary and Cultural Studies at both Gießen University and the Catholic University of Lisbon.

Table of Contents

Concept of «autre»-biography in J. M. Coetzee’s trilogy of fictionalized memoirs «Boyhood» (1997), «Youth» (2002), and «Summertime» (2009) – The poetics and politics of self – Literary figuration of a variegated self – Sense of identity, alterity and unbelonging