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Issues concerning South African Writer J.M. Coetzee's 1999 novel "Disgrace" are examined, focusing on how Coetzee portrays post-apartheid South Africa. Topics include the lack of affirmation in his novel; his belief that South Africa, like many countries in the late 20th-century, has forsaken life-affirming historical traditions for organizational efficiency; images of grace and disgrace; and the book's implicit political challenge to build a just state.
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Issues concerning 19th-century writer Olive Schreiner's participation in a society's intellectual life, dominated by men, are examined, focusing on her exploration of the subject in her novel "The Story of an African Farm." Topics include influences of the Hellenistic tradition, which could present a homoerotic male figure as a disembodied figure of female intellectual agency; and the manner in which men represent women in Schreiner's novel.
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The narrative structures of traditional romance and sensibility were incorporated into the novel genre of the 1840s to exploit the class and gender tensions of the period. This is evident in Henry Fielding's 'Joseph Andrews' and Sarah Fielding's 'David Simple. 'In Henry's novel the focus is on the conflict between bourgeois and landed ideologies while in Sarah's book the stress is on the contradictions within the emerging bourgeois ideology.
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