Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(2006), and Thinking in Literature (2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies.Jennifer Rutherford is Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of two books, including Zombies (2013).

These essays, overlapping in their concerns, offer many useful entries into a puzzling fiction that Rutherford likens to a fairy tale, in that ‘it magnifies the darkness and complexity of being human.'

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. IntroductionJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Section One: Philological and Philosophical Concerns2. What Does J.M. Coetzee’s Novel, The Childhood of Jesus Have To Do with the Childhood of Jesus?Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA)3. Pathos of the Future: Writing and Hospitality in Coetzee’s The Childhood of JesusJean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Section Two: Socio-Political Concerns4. Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of JesusJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia)5. Coetzee’s Republic: Plato, Borges, and Migrant Memory In The Childhood Of JesusLynda Ng (Sydney University, Australia) and Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)Section Three: Intertextual Concerns6. Creative Intuition: Coetzee, Plato, Bergson and MurnaneAnthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)7. The Name of the Number: Transfinite Mathematics in The Childhood of JesusBaylee Brits (University of New South Wales, Australia)Section Four: Ethical Concerns8. J. M. Coetzee and the Parental PunctumSue Kossew (Monash University, Australia)9. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and the Moral Image of the WorldTim Mehigan (University of Queensland, Australia)10. Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee’s Late Style in The Childhood of JesusYoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Index

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(2006), and Thinking in Literature (2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies.Jennifer Rutherford is Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of two books, including Zombies (2013).

These essays, overlapping in their concerns, offer many useful entries into a puzzling fiction that Rutherford likens to a fairy tale, in that ‘it magnifies the darkness and complexity of being human.'

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. IntroductionJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Section One: Philological and Philosophical Concerns2. What Does J.M. Coetzee’s Novel, The Childhood of Jesus Have To Do with the Childhood of Jesus?Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA)3. Pathos of the Future: Writing and Hospitality in Coetzee’s The Childhood of JesusJean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Section Two: Socio-Political Concerns4. Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of JesusJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia)5. Coetzee’s Republic: Plato, Borges, and Migrant Memory In The Childhood Of JesusLynda Ng (Sydney University, Australia) and Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)Section Three: Intertextual Concerns6. Creative Intuition: Coetzee, Plato, Bergson and MurnaneAnthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)7. The Name of the Number: Transfinite Mathematics in The Childhood of JesusBaylee Brits (University of New South Wales, Australia)Section Four: Ethical Concerns8. J. M. Coetzee and the Parental PunctumSue Kossew (Monash University, Australia)9. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and the Moral Image of the WorldTim Mehigan (University of Queensland, Australia)10. Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee’s Late Style in The Childhood of JesusYoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Index

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image(2006), and Thinking in Literature (2011). From 2008-2013 he edited the Journal of Beckett Studies.Jennifer Rutherford is Director of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of two books, including Zombies (2013).

These essays, overlapping in their concerns, offer many useful entries into a puzzling fiction that Rutherford likens to a fairy tale, in that ‘it magnifies the darkness and complexity of being human.'

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. IntroductionJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Section One: Philological and Philosophical Concerns2. What Does J.M. Coetzee’s Novel, The Childhood of Jesus Have To Do with the Childhood of Jesus?Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA)3. Pathos of the Future: Writing and Hospitality in Coetzee’s The Childhood of JesusJean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Section Two: Socio-Political Concerns4. Thinking Through Shit in The Childhood of JesusJennifer Rutherford (University of Adelaide, Australia)5. Coetzee’s Republic: Plato, Borges, and Migrant Memory In The Childhood Of JesusLynda Ng (Sydney University, Australia) and Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)Section Three: Intertextual Concerns6. Creative Intuition: Coetzee, Plato, Bergson and MurnaneAnthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)7. The Name of the Number: Transfinite Mathematics in The Childhood of JesusBaylee Brits (University of New South Wales, Australia)Section Four: Ethical Concerns8. J. M. Coetzee and the Parental PunctumSue Kossew (Monash University, Australia)9. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and the Moral Image of the WorldTim Mehigan (University of Queensland, Australia)10. Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee’s Late Style in The Childhood of JesusYoshiki Tajiri (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Index