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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 January 2026
    19 February 2026
    ISBN:
    9781009548397
    9781009548342
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009548397
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.518kg, 280 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature after 1945
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    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, English Literature after 1945
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    Speaking about his early experiments with the camera, the Nobel Prize winning novelist J. M. Coetzee acknowledged the seminal influence of images on his writing: 'The marks of photography and of the cinema are all over my work, from the beginning.' This book presents an archivally grounded examination of the influence of the camera on Coetzee's creative practice, providing insights that can help us read the novels in new ways. In this comprehensive examination of the formative role that photographic images play in Coetzee's oeuvre, Wittenberg offers evidence from biographical and archival sources, Coetzee's own critical writings, and the whole range of fictions themselves to gauge the extent of Coetzee's visual imagination. This book argues that the images that Coetzee writes into his fictions are charged with an affective and ethical force that connects them to larger questions relating to the truth, a relationship in which the autobiographical self is implicated.

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