The Novels of J.M. Coetzee: Lacanian Allegories

achieve African allegory allows appear articulated attempt authority Barbarians becomes beginning body calls castration Chapter character child claim Coetzee Coetzee's novels colonial condition constitutes construction context continues criticism death describes desire difference discourse Dusklands Ecrits effect Eugene existence eyes face fact father figure Friday function girl gives hand Heart identity individual Jacobus kind Lacan Lacanian language liberal literary live Magda Magistrate mastery meaning metaphor Michael mimicry mode mother movement narrative narrator nature never notion object origin passage past phallus position possible present produces provides reader reading recognize refers relation relationship repetition represents says sense sexual signifier situation South space speak speech story structure suggests Susan Symbolic tell temporal thing tion translation truth turn unconscious whole woman women writing