Open AccessEXILIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE NOVEL BY JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE
Author(s) -
Dinh Kien Chu,
Thi Ngoc Han Nguyen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
khoa học xã hội, nhân văn và giáo dục
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1859-4603
DOI - 10.47393/jshe.v10i2.907
Subject(s) - consciousness , humanity , soul , tragedy (event) , identity (music) , politics , state (computer science) , literature , sociology , philosophy , aesthetics , art , theology , political science , epistemology , law , algorithm , computer science
As a South African writer but currently living and working in Australia, so deep down, J.M. Coetzee has a profound sense of exile, which affected his writings. Not only having lost their identity cards and places of living, but the characters in Coetzee's novels also have the consciousness of an exiled soul. Each story he reflected also contains allegories of the politics, the apartheid state institution. The article explains some aspects of political discourse and exilic consciousness, helping us understand the apartheid tragedy that has had a strong impact on the lives of South Africans in particular and of humanity in general.