A Maternal Narrative and Beyond: An Ethical Reading of Home Consciousness in J .M. Coetzee's Age of Iron

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	A Maternal Narrative and Beyond: An Ethical Reading of Home Consciousness in J .M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
	Liang, Dong
	2023-12
发表期刊	FORUM FOR WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES
卷号	15 期号:4 页码:596-617
摘要	In Coetzee's oeuvre, Age of Iron literally, and perhaps most explicitly, exhibits the idea of home in a maternal narrative with regard to both the narrative itself and the influence of Coetzee's authorship. By calling it a maternal narrative, this essay premises the argument not only on the fact that the story is told by a mother to her self-exiled daughter, but also on the recurring moments of motherhood, the prominent absence of a husband-like figure and the implication of the children's filial duty. Besides the fictional parent/child bond, there is also another narrative thread, the ethics of alterity. The novelist prepares a dual approach to alterity, with one part Vercueil while the other the black people, for readers to appreciate Mrs Curren's wrestling with her ethical predicament as a liberal humanism, namely, her sympathy with the blacks and complicity with apartheid. All these narrative techniques All these narrative techniques are used to effectively integrate the novelist's emotions, particularly his connection to liberalism in South Africa and his mother Vera, with the historical, ethical, and political context of the novel. This essay will try to test this assumption and dig out the influence of Coetzee's authorship behind these tensions.
关键词	a maternal narrative ethical predicament home consciousness alterity authorship
收录类别	ESCI
ISSN	1949-8519
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Literature
WOS类目	Literature
WOS记录号	WOS:001146425200002
出版者	KNOWLEDGE HUB PUBL CO LTD
原始文献类型	Article
EISSN	2154-6711
引用统计	被引频次[WOS]：0 [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.lzufe.edu.cn/handle/39EH0E1M/35673
专题	兰州财经大学
通讯作者	Liang, Dong
作者单位	Lanzhou Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Foreign Languages, Weile Rd 4, Lanzhou 730020, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	兰州财经大学
通讯作者单位	兰州财经大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liang, Dong. A Maternal Narrative and Beyond: An Ethical Reading of Home Consciousness in J .M. Coetzee's Age of Iron[J]. FORUM FOR WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES,2023,15(4):596-617.
APA	Liang, Dong.(2023).A Maternal Narrative and Beyond: An Ethical Reading of Home Consciousness in J .M. Coetzee's Age of Iron.FORUM FOR WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES,15(4),596-617.
MLA	Liang, Dong."A Maternal Narrative and Beyond: An Ethical Reading of Home Consciousness in J .M. Coetzee's Age of Iron".FORUM FOR WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES 15.4(2023):596-617.