{"title":"Violence and Ventriloquism in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace","authors":"S. Li","doi":"10.1353/mos.2019.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While many critics have read J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace as a redemptive narrative in which the protagonist undergoes an ethical Bildung through his contact with animals, this essay examines ways in which any possible moral development is dependent on narrative and embodied violence toward human and nonhuman others.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"102 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:While many critics have read J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace as a redemptive narrative in which the protagonist undergoes an ethical Bildung through his contact with animals, this essay examines ways in which any possible moral development is dependent on narrative and embodied violence toward human and nonhuman others.