Drawing the Divine Seed

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" Drawing the Divine Seed "
Anas Tabraiz

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076766
Doc. No	:	LA120395
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05001010‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Anas Tabraiz
Title & Author	:	Drawing the Divine Seed [Article]\ Anas Tabraiz
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	50/1
Page No	:	169–187
Abstract	:	This article connects the disparate references to India in Coetzee’s writings to his core debate on ethics. Coetzee’s novels are in dialogue with the Western philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that privileges an intersubjective reality over the reality of the objective world. This tradition sees the common Indians, and the natives of colonies, indifferently poised at the threshold of humanity. Being barely human these indifferent multitudes are seen as dispensable objects devoid of ethical claims. Coetzee’s metafiction highlights the ways in which the intersubjective community uses language and signification to produce a closed consensual reality against the open truths of the objective world. Coetzee’s snippets from India interweave the reality of a world oblivious to Western sentience and cognition. His efforts at pulling the obscure into the divine light of the rational community becomes comparable to drawing the divine seed to fertilize an abandoned and banished version of the Eternal Feminine.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	Gandhi
Descriptor	:	harijan
Descriptor	:	imaginary
Descriptor	:	J.M. Coetzee
Descriptor	:	Kali
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	real
Descriptor	:	Shiva
Descriptor	:	symbolic
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-05001010‬