Reading against race

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Justin Cartwright's White Lightning and Ivan Vladislavić's The Restless Supermarket

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20156430
AutoresMike Marais (0000-0001-6794-3976, a Teaches in the Department of English , Rand Afrikaans University, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume19
Fascículo3-4
Páginas271-289
Data de publicação2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
EditoraUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564710308530332
OpenAlexW2015526849
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas5

In this essay, I argue that the treatment of race that one finds in J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), Justin Cartwright's White Lightning (2002) and Ivan Vladislavić's The Restless Supermarket (2001), is premised on a recognition of the discursive inscription of the category of race in culture. These novels ponder the implications of the cultural basis of this trope by asking, for instance, whether nonracialism is a possibility that is open to the individual in a social context in which discourses of race prevail and, if not, how the individual may counter them. My essay examines not only the ways in which the novels under consideration articulate these questions, but also how they respond to them through a foregrounding of the culturally determined nature of reading

Aesthetics · Art · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture