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Coetzee Meets Foucault: Power, Violence, and the Subject in Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace

After providing a vignette about the South African political context, the chapter offers a Foucauldian reading of two famous Coetzee’s novels, Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace. That means it charts connections of power and punishment and formation of subject roles in them within an interpretive framework developed by Michel Foucault in his works from 1970s. The chapter concludes discussing the themes of revolutionary violence and the role of political analysis, comparing Žižek’s and Foucault’s position on these issues.

Foucault ; Coetzee ; power ; punishment ; violence ; Lapsley ; South Africa

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