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  1. Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

    #FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

  2. Finally read #TejuCole's Open City (2011) & this passage, along with others referencing #Said, #Benjamin, #Didion, #Melville, #Coetzee, about plagues really stood out : "I read somewhere recently that the city of Leiden lost thirty-five percent of its population in a five-year period in the 1630s. What could it mean to live with such a possibility, with people of all ages dropping dead around you all the time? The thing is we have no idea" (200-201).

    #bookstodon
    #litstudies

  3. Today is the 84th birthday of J. M. Coetzee, who was born #OTD in 1940 in Cape Town and won, among many other things, the
    @Thebookerprizes TWICE (83 + 99) & the 2003
    @nobelprize for Fiction! 🎂

    #JMCoetzee #Coetzee #SouthAfricanLiterature #AustralianLiterature #EnglishLiterature

  4. "The symbolism of publishing in the South before the North is important to me"

    J.M. #Coetzee about why his latest book, the novella "El polaco", was first published in Spanish in Argentina. More in @[email protected]: english.elpais.com/culture/202

  5. CW: Coetzee against global English

    An overview here of J.M. Coetzee's frustration with the global hegemony of the English language. Coetzee's most recent novel has only appeared in Spanish translation, and his collection "Moral Tales" from 2018 has only appeared in Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese.
    newyorker.com/books/page-turne

    #Coetzee #Bookstodon #Language #English @litstudies