J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

by Kai Wiegandt

Book Overview

"Kai Wiegandt's study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee's revision of our core ideas of the human--not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasively analyses the careful ways through which Coetzee deploys narrative as a mode of thinking through such human and post-human questions, so developing a fresh and original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030293084
• ISBN13: 9783030293086
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"