Body, Desire and Storytelling in Novels by J. M. Coetzee

Olfa Belgacem is a teaching assistant at the University of Tunis. She has a PhD in English language and literature and is an Ecole Normale Supérieure graduate who has worked as an agrégée teacher at the University of Carthage. She is an active member of the research group "Languages and Cultural Forms" at ISLT and has participated in several national and international conferences. She has a published article in The International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies entitled "Revisiting the Colonial Text and Context: Parody in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe" and another one in "The International Conference Proceedings on Science, Art and Gender In the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages entitled "Taming the Indigenous Shrew: Torture and Narration as Possible Tools to Translate the Natives’ Silence in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe." Dr. Belgacem has written other research papers on ethnic studies and identity politics as well as on education and didactics. She is currently working on the publication of some of these papers.

"An engaging and insightful book. The author offers readers further clues to unravelling Coetzee’s ambivalent narratives through close textual reading, a rare feat today. " -- Dr.Sadok Bouhlila, Department of English, Manouba University.

• PART I Negotiating Power in the Other’s Flesh 1 Colonial Bodies…Resurrected? 2 Desiring the Maimed, or Eroticism Revisited PART II White Voices/Black Bodies: A Politics of Displacement 3 The Story with/in the Story: Coetzee’s Shadow Narratives 4 Closed Bodies, Mut(e)ilated Narratives: Negotiating a Story out of the Other PART III Beyond the B(lo)ody Politics 5 The Body as a Historicizing Map 6 The Body as an Identitarian Map Conclusion Bibliography Index