The Novels of J.M. Coetzee: Lacanian Allegories |
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African Farm allegory articulated attempt authority Barbarians becomes Captain America Chapter child claim Coetzee's novels colonial consciousness constitutes context criticism Cruso Dawn's death instinct deconstructs Derrida describes desire difference discourse Dusklands Ecrits effect Elsa Joubert Eugene Dawn existence father feminist fiction figure free indirect speech Freud Friday function genre girl Heart Hottentot identity Imaginary J.M. Coetzee Jacobus Coetzee Josef K Kafka's Lacan Lacanian language liberal literary live Magda Magistrate Magistrate's mastery meaning metaphor metonymic Michael Michael K mimicry Mirror Stage mode mother myth narrative narrator notion object Olive Schreiner passage past phallus position Postmodernism present psychoanalytic reader reading recognize refers relation relationship repetition representation represents Schreiner's Schreiner's novel Section sense sexual signifier silence South African speak speech speech act story strategy structure Susan Barton Symbolic tell temporal tion Trans translation truth turn unconscious Univ utterance woman women words