Disgraceland: history and the humanities in frontier country

Title: Disgraceland: history and the humanities in frontier country
Creator: Cornwell, Gareth D N
Date Issued: 2003
Date: 2003
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6117
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004618
Description: This paper explores the significance of Coetzee's choice of Salem in the Eastern Cape as the (part) setting for his novel Disgrace. A determinedly local and historical reading of the text suggests that Lucy's conduct represents an "ideal" solution to the historical issues of wrong and reparation raised in the novel. This finding is scrutinized through a reading of "The Humanities in Africa" from Elizabeth Costello, and it is concluded that whatever hope for rehabilitation or redemption the novel holds out for white South Africans necessarily exists beyond the discourse of the humanities, indeed, outside of history itself.
Format: 27 leaves
Format: pdf
Language: English

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Cornwell, David Gareth Napier (Prof Emeritus)

RU Department of Literary Studies in English

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