Reading against race
J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Justin Cartwright's White Lightning and Ivan Vladislavić's The Restless Supermarket
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Marais (0000-0001-6794-3976, a Teaches in the Department of English , Rand Afrikaans University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 271-289 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564710308530332 |
| OpenAlex | W2015526849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
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
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2018 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |