TY  - CHAP
A1  - Robinson, Benjamin Lewis
T1  - The world after fiction : J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus"
T2  - The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19
N2  - Opponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end of the 'work of literature'. J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus" (2013) presents a world in which the work of literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive in a new life 'washed clean' of the burden of the European tradition. Simón, who dimly recalls the old life, feels that something is missing in the new. He longs for something altogether 'other'. Might Simón learn from the exceptional child David to perceive the 'likeness' in this world? Are we to read Coetzee's novel like Simón or like David - and with what consequence for our understanding of the work of literature in a time of World Literature?
KW  - Coetzee, J. M.
KW  - The Childhood of Jesus
KW  - World literature
KW  - Otherness
KW  - Singularity
KW  - Weltliteratur
KW  - Das Andere
KW  - Singularität <Philosophie>
KW  - Derrida, Jacques
KW  - Don Quijote
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60947
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609476
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/robinson_world-after-fiction.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-013-8
SN  - 978-3-96558-022-0
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 106
EP  - 126
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -