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Zusatztext J. M. Coetzee & the Archive is the first edited collection to focus explicitly on Coetzee’s archive. By turns informative, revelatory, thought-provoking, and inspiring, the essays and “conversations” in this volume broach new ways of engaging with Coetzee’s corpus, and contribute to current theoretical debates about “the archival turn” in literary-critical studies. Informationen zum Autor Dr Marc Farrant recently completed his doctorate at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, on Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. He has published widely in academic journals such as The Cambridge Humanities Review, Textual Practice and The Journal of Modern Literature. He currently lectures in English at universities in Germany and the Netherlands. He was awarded a doctoral research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center in 2015. Dr Kai Easton is Senior Lecturer in English at SOAS, University of London. She was one of the first scholars to access Coetzee’s archival materials at Houghton Library, Harvard University in the late 1990s and has published widely on Coetzee and South African literature, including most recently (with Derek Attridge) Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal (Routledge, 2017). She has previously taught at the universities of Sussex, Rhodes and was an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has twice been awarded research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center (2014; 2018). Dr. Hermann Wittenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has worked extensively in South Africa literary studies and published several archival studies on Khoi narratives and the work of J.M. Coetzee and Alan Paton. His edited books include Paton’s Lost City of the Kalahari travelogue (UKZN Press, 2005) and the J.M. Coetzee’s Two Screenplays (UCT Press, 2014). He has strong interests in the intersection of literature, film and photography, and has co-curated the recent “J.M. Coetzee: Photographs of Boyhood” exhibition (2017-18). He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. He is the editor of a forthcoming photobook of the same title. Wittenberg is also interested in eco-critical writing and has co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays, Rwenzori: Histories and Cultures of an African Mountain (Kampala: Fountain Press 2007), as well as a special issue of Alternation focusing on oceanic and coastal themes in South African literature. He has been awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center for the 2019-2020 session. Vorwort This book explores and illustrates the significant ‘archival turn’ in Coetzee Studies and the questions this raises for contemporary literary theory around authorship and auto/biography. Zusammenfassung Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee's oeuvre . Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence. Navigating Coetzee’s interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis
