Abstract
This article reads J.M. Coetzee's fiction within the broader context of European and Western post-modernism, focusing on the problematic representation of History in Foe and Waiting for the Barbarians. Drawing on Hayden White, Michel de Certeau, Althusser, and Fredric Jameson, it argues that Coetzee treats history as allegory and absence accessible only through textuality and the political unconscious.
Recommended Citation
JOUAY, Mohamed
(1997)
"J.M. Coetzee: Writing History in the Post-Modern Text,"
Bouhout: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/bouhout/vol7/iss1/12