J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual David Shumway and Wildlands of Southern Utah

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the general public remains unaware of these flaws

The lectures were given in order that the conscience of a small group of human beings at least might be made alive to the tasks of the time

and antiracist politics

J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual David Shumway and Wildlands of Southern UtahIn September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. Taking the