A repressed desire named revolution: Social anomalies and anxieties in Coetzee’s Waiting for The Barbarians
The present paper attempts to investigate J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) in terms of Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious. Jameson’s intellectual hermeneutics lies in uncovering the way in which the contradictions, antinomies, sociopolitical and cultural anxietie...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1447758 |