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LC control number 2012376332
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International Standard Book Number 9789401206945
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789401206945
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Classification number PR9369.3.C58
Item number Z7824 2011
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Subject category code LIT004120
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Classification number 306.09
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, María Jesús.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Acts of visitation :
Remainder of title the narrative of J.M. Coetzee /
Statement of responsibility, etc. María J. López.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Amsterdam ;
-- New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Rodopi,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2011.
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Extent 1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages)
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Series statement Cross/cultures,
International Standard Serial Number 0924-1426 ;
Volume/sequential designation 140
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-330) and index.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preliminary Material -- Critical Appropriations and Hermeneutic Resistance -- Penetration: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country -- Resistance: Waiting for the Barbarians -- Parasitism: Life and Times of Michael K and Age of Iron -- Visitation: Disgrace -- Secrecy: Foe -- (Un)belonging: Boyhood, Youth, and Summertime -- Intrusion: The Master of Petersburg and Slow Man -- Fidelities: Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Summary, etc. This study traces, in J.M. Coetzee’s fictional and non-fictional production, an imaginative and intellectual masterplot deriving from Coetzee’s perception of European presence in (South) Africa as having its origin in an act of illegitimate penetration and fraudulent visitation. In Coetzee’s novels, the historical and political problem of a hostile occupation and unfair distribution of the land finds a correspondence in the domestic space of house and farm, and the uneasy cohabitation of its occupants, along with the relation between hosts and guests. The seminal dimension of the categories of penetration and visitation is highlighted, as these are shown to operate not only on a spatial level but also on an epistemological, physical, psychological, hermeneutic, metafictional and ethical one: we encounter literary and psychological secrets that resist decipherment, bodies that cannot be penetrated, writers depicted as intruders, parents that ask to be welcomed by their children. This study also identifies, in Coetzee’s narrative, an ethical proposal grounded on a logic of excess and unconditionality – a logic of ‘not enough’ – lying behind certain acts of hospitality, friendship, kindness, care, and guidance to the gate of death, acts that may transform prevailing unequal socio-historical conditions and hostile personal relationships, characterized by a logic of parasitism and intrusion. As the figure of the writer progressively gains explicit prominence in Coetzee’s literary production, special attention will be paid to it, as it alternately appears as secretary and master, migrant and intruder, pervert and foe, citizen and neighbour. Overall, Acts of Visitation analyzes how Coetzee’s works depict the (South) African land, the Karoo farm, the familial household or the writer’s and literary character’s house as simultaneously contending and redemptive sites in which urgent historical, ethical, and metafictional issues are spatially explored and dramatized.
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Personal name Coetzee, J. M.,
Dates associated with a name 1940-
General subdivision Criticism and interpretation.
600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Coetzee, J. M.,
Dates associated with a name 1940-
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature.
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651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name South Africa
General subdivision In literature.
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Geographic name South Africa.
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Genre/form data or focus term Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title Acts of Visitation: The Narrative of J.M. Coetzee
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2011,
International Standard Book Number 9789042034075
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Cross/Cultures
Volume/sequential designation 140.
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Uniform title Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004357914.
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Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401206945">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401206945</a>

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