"Literature keeps its secrets": silence and alterity in J.M. Coetzee's "Foe"

• Autores: María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this paper is to show how the secrets, the silences and the ghosts that traverse J. M. Coetzee's "Foe" subvert the labour of penetration and assimilation that, both in the construction and interpretation of the literary text, speaks for or silences the other, in this case, the African other. Friday's liminal place or absent presence within the spatial and rhetorical configuration of this novel and the repetitive attempts to make him be heard underline the ethical obligation to respond to the other by questioning and reinventing one's authoritarian categories of representation and interpretation.