J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child

Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee''s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee''s poetics. Through readings of novels from Dusklands to The Schooldays of Jesus, Charlotta Elmgren shows how Coetzee''s writing stages the constant interplay between irresponsibility and responsibility-to the self, the other, an...