This essay raises questions about the authorship and representativeness of the ANC's response to Disgrace in its submission to the South African Human Rights Commission's hearings into racism in the media. It shows that this response, or the putative reading it is taken to represent, racializes...
It deals with love and relationships at their most basic and dark levels -- as paths to both meaning and survival." - John Kennedy, The Antioch Review "It may be that 200 pages have never worked so hard as they do in Coetzee's hands. He's a novelist of stunning precision and ...
aDave's picking up the van tomorrow. 明天拾起搬运车的戴维的。[translate] awhere they were sent to live 那里送他们住[translate] a手にしたものなくしたもの 全てに君と意味があるから Because those which were inserted in the hand there is you and meaning in thing everything which is lost...
“I should like to know ‘who’ has been carried off except poor dear ‘me,’” Byron wrote to his publisher, when accused of mistreating women. “—I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”1The comparison is suggestive, for it links him to a tradition of ...
Both respondents, I offer, may be seen and understood to create public spectacles in which they acquire (what they take to be) permanent, meaning-conferring identities that are meant, if not destined, to withstand the dislocations and calamities to come. In both cases, moreover, the point ...