Beyond Conventions: The Nomadic Smooth Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K

dc.contributor.authorKarwowska, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-13T09:59:03Z
dc.date.available2015-07-13T09:59:03Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis article traces the processes governing the creation of literary places in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K. The recognition of elements characteristic of pastoral, anti-pastoral and post-pastoral modes of spatial organisation in renderings of the City of Cape Town and the South African countryside constitutes the point of departure for the analysis. Conventional patterns are questioned and subverted, and ultimately proven unfit for the representation of the moments of social and political distress in late twentieth century South Africa. The novel’s protagonist suggestively navigates the interpretation process into the field of postmodern theories of space. The distinction between ‘smooth’ and ‘striated’ space proposed by French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze establishes a revealing set of correspondences and evinces previously uncovered exegetic layers of the narrative.pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationWerkwinkel vol. 7(2), 2012, pp. 113-134pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn1896-3307
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/13680
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherDepartment of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of Englishpl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.subjectJ.M. Coetzeepl_PL
dc.subjectSouth Africapl_PL
dc.subjectliterary conventionpl_PL
dc.subjectpastoralpl_PL
dc.subjectecocriticismpl_PL
dc.subjectspacepl_PL
dc.subjectplacepl_PL
dc.subjectcitypl_PL
dc.subjectcountrypl_PL
dc.subjectMichel Foucaultpl_PL
dc.subjectFélix Guattaripl_PL
dc.subjectGilles Deleuzepl_PL
dc.subjectsmooth spacepl_PL
dc.subjectstriated spacepl_PL
dc.subjectheterogeneouspl_PL
dc.subjecthybriditypl_PL
dc.titleBeyond Conventions: The Nomadic Smooth Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael Kpl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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