Discipline in "Disgrace"

In Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee provides a critique of the contemporary market-driven university and its disciplinary apparatus that is indebted to Michel Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power. Coetzee stages the disciplining of an academic whose conduct, driven by deviant desires, runs counter t...

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Published in:Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2010-09, Vol.43 (3), p.1-16
Main Author: LENTA, PATRICK
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apartheid
Authors, South African
Capitalism
Censorship
Coetzee, J M (1940- )
Coetzee, J.M
College discipline
Criminal procedure
Criticism and interpretation
Essays
Foucault, Michel
Freedom
Guilt
Liberalism
Mosaic
Portrayals
Rape
Reinforcement
Repentance
Right of privacy
South African literature
South African writers
Torture
Universities
Works
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Summary:In Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee provides a critique of the contemporary market-driven university and its disciplinary apparatus that is indebted to Michel Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power. Coetzee stages the disciplining of an academic whose conduct, driven by deviant desires, runs counter to the objectives of the corporate university.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683