Table of Contents

Introduction 1. In quest of ‘other modes of being’: J.M. Coetzee’s ontological inquiries 2. Dusklands and the meaning of method 3. The violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee’s Dusklands 4. Reading between life and work: reflections on ‘J.M. Coetzee’ 5. Coetzee & co: failure, lies and autobiography 6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka’s courtroom in Coetzee’s Disgrace 7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in Coetzee’s writing 8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the impersonal in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

About the Author

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), Beckett and Poststructuralism (2008), and Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (2011). He is currently completing a book on J. M. Coetzee.