Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Hermann Wittenberg, born in Cape Town, has worked extensively in the field of South African literature, including the fictions of J. M. Coetzee. He has strong interests in archival studies, the intersection of literature, film and photography, as well as writing on indigeneity and ecology. He has edited two of Coetzee's film scripts which were published as Two Screenplays (2014), and curated the international 'Photographs from Boyhood' exhibition (2017–20), which was subsequently published as a photobook with the same title (2020). He has co-edited the book J.M. Coetzee and the Archive. Fiction, Theory and Autobiography (2021), and convened the 'Dusklands 50' anniversary conference in Cape Town in 2024, which marked the publication of Coetzee's debut work of fiction. He is a Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape.

• 1. Writing with images; 2. In the darkroom of fiction; 3. Picturing violence: dusklands, colonial photography and My Lai; 4. The camera in the Karoo: in the heart of the country and cinema; 5. Waiting for the barbarians: ocular ethics, cinematic dreaming and film; 6. Writing through the lens: life & times of Michael K and Foe; 7. The ends of photography: disgrace, slow man and the late fictions; Select bibliography; Index.