£120.00

Routledge - The Body, Desire and Storytelling in J. M. Coetzee

Price data checked 3 days ago

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 88 days • 88 data points

Historical
Generating forecast...
£127.65 £110.66 £114.36 £118.07 £121.78 £125.49 £129.20 30 January 2026 20 February 2026 14 March 2026 05 April 2026 27 April 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 88 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
61 days 18 days · current 9 days 0 15 31 46 61 £112 £120 £128 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £112 (61 days, 69.3%)

Price range: £112 - £128

Price levels: 3 different prices over 88 days

Description

Explore a deep academic analysis of J. M. Coetzee's literary works with this study from the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series. This book examines how Coetzee represents the body through themes of dismemberment, challenging traditional colonial views that often depict the body of the other as exotic or erotic. By looking at the narrative identity of the colonial other, this text reveals the complexities of embodied representation. It investigates the risks involved in these narrative patterns and how they reflect back on the authorial identity of Coetzee himself. Readers will gain a better understanding of how repetitive narrative patterns and specific characterization choices shape the storytelling process in these novels. This work is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in postcolonial literature and the representation of identity in modern fiction.

Key Features

Analyzes Coetzee's representation of the body as a subject to dismemberment to counter colonial views of the other.

Examines the ambivalence found in Coetzee's embodied representation of the other in his novels.

Investigates the narrative identity of the colonial other and how their body is represented in text.

Reveals how authorial identity is exposed through repetitive narrative patterns and characterization.

Part of the respected Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series for academic study.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
17 October 2018
Listed Since
23 July 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Gender and Rights - Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies
95% match

Routledge Gender and Rights - Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies

Routledge

£140.32 12 Apr 2026
Les Mots Sans Sépulture: L'Écriture de Raharimanana: 29 (Documents Pour L'Histoire Des Francophonies)
95% match

Les Mots Sans Sépulture: L'Écriture de Raharimanana: 29 (Documents Pour L'Histoire Des Francophonies)

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

£43.23 30 Apr 2026
Routledge Environment and Belief Systems - Indigenous Studies
95% match

Routledge Environment and Belief Systems - Indigenous Studies

Routledge

£136.45 17 Apr 2026
The African Novel in the Context of Combat Poetics: Selected Works of Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Sembene Ousmane and Festus Iyayi
95% match

The African Novel in the Context of Combat Poetics: Selected Works of Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Sembene Ousmane and Festus Iyayi

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

£69.00 01 Mar 2026
Imaginary Europes - Routledge Literary and Film History Book
95% match

Imaginary Europes - Routledge Literary and Film History Book

Routledge

£145.00 25 Apr 2026
Post-Empire Imaginaries?: Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires: 182/19 (ASNEL Papers, 182/19)
95% match

Post-Empire Imaginaries?: Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires: 182/19 (ASNEL Papers, 182/19)

Brill

£46.59 20 Apr 2026
Postcolonial Theories: 6 (Transitions)
95% match

Postcolonial Theories: 6 (Transitions)

Red Globe Press

£65.00 28 Feb 2026
Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference
94% match

Frantz Fanon, Postcolonialism and the Ethics of Difference

Manchester University Press

£57.75 28 Feb 2026
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)
94% match

Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies)

Routledge

£119.60 03 Feb 2026
Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa (Contemporary African Political Economy)
94% match

Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa (Contemporary African Political Economy)

MACMILLAN

£109.99 24 Feb 2026
Routledge - Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities
94% match

Routledge - Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities

Routledge

£145.30 27 Apr 2026
The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
94% match

The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

MACMILLAN

£194.10 04 Apr 2026
Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
94% match

Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film (Routledge Contemporary Africa)

Routledge

£111.79 30 Jan 2026
African-American English: Structure, History, and Use (Routledge Linguistics Classics)
94% match

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

£133.40 09 Jan 2026
Routledge Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching
94% match

Routledge Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching

Routledge

£131.87 21 Apr 2026
Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial: Political and Socio-Cultural Identities (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)
94% match

Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial: Political and Socio-Cultural Identities (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)

Routledge

£140.00 26 Feb 2026
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African Histories and Modernities)
94% match

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African Histories and Modernities)

MACMILLAN

£75.02 25 Feb 2026
Constructing Co-Cultural Theory: An Explication of Culture, Power, and Communication
94% match

Constructing Co-Cultural Theory: An Explication of Culture, Power, and Communication

Sage Publications

£100.00 17 Feb 2026
The Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama
94% match

The Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama

Bloomsbury Academic

£66.24 14 Apr 2026
Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa: 14 (Routledge African Studies)
94% match

Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa: 14 (Routledge African Studies)

Routledge

£131.92 08 Jan 2026
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
94% match

The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience

Indiana University Press

£64.00 11 Mar 2026
The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics
94% match

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics

£83.00 08 Jan 2026
Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity: 11 (Routledge African Studies)
94% match

Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity: 11 (Routledge African Studies)

Routledge

£137.90 30 Apr 2026
Re-Thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Identity: 55 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 55)
94% match

Re-Thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Identity: 55 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 55)

RODOPI

£54.09 26 Apr 2026