J.M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship

In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee''s literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author''s abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the "paradox of postcolonial authorship". Writers of conscience or conscience-stricken writers of the kind Coetzee portrays, whilst striving symbolically to bring the stories of the marginal and the oppressed to light, a...