J.M. Coetzee and the Archive Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography

Introduction: Kai Easton, Marc Farrant & Hermann Wittenberg -- I. Authorship and autre-biography. 1. Kai Easton (SOAS University of London, UK) -- 'Landmarks: reading Coetzee's maternal lines' ; 2. Shaun Irlam (University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA) -- ' Summertime sadness: Coetzee, coordinates & negation of the archive' ; 3. Valeria Mosca (Independent Scholar) -- 'On the loss of fathers and letters: reading summertime and the childhood of Jesus alongside Jacques Derrida's archive fever' -- II. History, politics & the archive. 4. Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- 'Writing, politics, position: Coetzee and Gordimer in and out of the archive' ; 5. Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) -- 'Out of the dark chamber: violence, desire and the late apartheid state in the textual history of Waiting for the Barbarians' -- III. Archival methods: practice, data, process. 6. Peter Johnston (Cambridge Assessment, UK) -- 'Humming with fear of sincerity and fabulator': first observations from the Coetzee corpus and the Coetzee bot ; 7. Michael Green (Northumbria University, UK) -- 'On reflection: Coetzee, the archive, and practice research' -- IV. On literary objects: form and style in the archive. 8. David Isaacs (Independent Scholar) -- 'Archival realism: Elizabeth Costello, disgrace and the realm of revision' ; 9. Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia, Cyrpus) -- 'In pursuit of style: Coetzee reading Beckett in the archive' -- V. Philosophy and the archive: between life and truth. 10. Marc Farrant (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- 'The aura of truth': Coetzee's archive, realism, and the question of literary authority' ; 11. Richard A. Barney (University of Albany, SUNY, USA) -- 'Coetzee, biopolitics, and the archive of impersonality' ; 12. Russell Samolsky (UC Santa Barbara, USA) -- 'Shades of the archive: J. M. Coetzee, the paradox of poetic sovereignty, and the lives of literary beings' -- VI. Conversations with Coetzee. 13. Jennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) -- 'Curating Coetzee: from Austin to Adelaide' ; 14. Richard Mosse (Artist, Ireland) -- ' Incoming/waiting for the barbarians' ; 15. Kai Easton (SOAS, UK) -- '34** South'.