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- Title: Picturing the African Diaspora in Recent Fiction
- Author : Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 98 KB
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Migrant identities in recent South African fiction J M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) engages, at a deep narrative level, with the theme of migration that has also been taken up by a number of other South African writers during the past decade to the extent that it has come to signal an important direction in South African fiction. The narrative of Coetzee's novel, which is set in urban Cape Town and rural Salem, may be seen in many ways to rehearse, and also to reverse, in contemporary contexts the exploitative and violent historical encounters in South Africa between immigrant colonising cultures and migratory indigenous cultures on the Western and Eastern Cape frontiers. This history of migration behind the contemporary cultural collisions in the novel is underscored, for example, by David Lurie's own professional and domestic dislocation from his home and from his academic position in Cape Town and his relocation to temporary abodes, first with his daughter Lucy on her farm outside Salem, and afterwards at the animal shelter in Grahamstown where he ends up working. Emigration is also further emphasised by Lurie's advice to Lucy after her rape to leave South Africa for Holland, the home of her Dutch mother. Coetzee himself a semi-expatriate based in both Cape Town and Chicago at the time of writing the novel--suggests in Disgrace that migration, whether enforced or voluntary, has informed cultural identities in South Africa from the beginning.