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    Topographies of blankness in J. M. Coetzee's fiction

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1274
    ISSN: 1578-3820
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i9.202
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    Martín Salván, Paula
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    2008
    Abstract
    This article proposes a topographical overview of J. M. Coetzee’s fi ction, taking as a departure point the narrative and ideological potential of physical space in his novels (Spivak 1991; Marais 1996; Ashcroft 1998). The topographies of Coetzee’s novels follow a recurrent spatial pattern: They are all heterotopias, defi ned by opposition to somewhere else and codifi ed in the political language of limits, frontiers and boundaries. I would like to examine the persistence of an imagery of blankness, emptiness, barrenness and ghostliness, suggesting that the epistemological instability of such rhetorical articulations may work as an element of resistance to binary ideological constructions. Este artículo propone un recorrido topográfico por la narrativa de J. M. Coetzee, tomando como punto de partida el potencial narrativo e ideológico del espacio físico en sus novelas (Spivak 1991; Marais 1996; Ashcroft 1998). Las topografías de las novelas de Coetzee siguen un patrón especial recurren...
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    Landscape
    topography
    heterotopia
    blankness
    Paisaje
    topografía
    heterotopía
    vacío
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