J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy as Meta-Utopia

The present article argues that J.M. Coetzee’s fictions The Childhood of Jesus (2013), The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) and The Death of Jesus (2019) have a typical form of meta-utopia in the context of Coetzee’s living during apartheid censorship and his affinity for the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoye...

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Published in:	Caietele Echinox
Main Author:	Georgiana Tudor
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2024-06-01
Subjects:	j.m. coetzee jesus trilogy morphology of the utopian genre meta-utopia edith clowes corin braga
Online Access:	https://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CaieteEchinox46-2024-p.181-195.pdf

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