Foes: Plato, Derrida, and Coetzee: Rereading J.M. Coetzee's Foe

The novels of J.M. Coetzee both invite and reward multiple readings, and Foe (1986) remains one of Coetzee's most deliberately innovative and literary of novels. In a prescient act, a conference on Foe was hosted by the Theory of Literature Department at Unisa as early as 1988, only some two ye...

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