J. M. Coetzee's Ecopoetics and Environmental Ethics: A New Materialist Reading of Life & Times of Michael K and The Lives of Animals
Abstract:J. M. Coetzee's engagement with the nonhuman other in some early and later fiction raises the philosophical questions of being and materiality. In Life and Times of Michael K and The Lives of Animals, nature and the animal other assume the form of a radically non-signifying materiality beyond the confines of (...