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Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction

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Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction

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Contemporary life-writing, exercised within various cultural, political and ethnic backgrounds, have made questionable authenticity and referentiality in respect to the collapse of the monumental notion of the wholeness of the self. Likewise, in his trilogy of fictionalized autobiography, J. M. Coetzee indulged in homo-diegetic experiments based upon the transitivity between the autobiographical mode and fictional discourse. The alternation of conflictual identities and the fluctuating identity models in Boyhood (1997) and Youth (2002), which are third person narratives, underscores the auto-biographer’s protean selves. The last in the trilogy, Summertime (2009), is in the form of a collaborative project of biography after Coetzee’s fictitious death conducted by a fictitious biographer and five interviewees accounting for different segments of his life. This study aims to examine the interplay between the auto-biographer’s multifarious subject positions and the multiplicity of discursive modes employed in Coetzee’s trilogy. Subsequently, the ethics of representing the other will be evaluated from the perspective of representing the self-as-the-other. That Coetzee ends up being reduced to partial and provisional appearances in the life-stories of the others implies that his overall project targets a gradual self-diminishment, instead of reaching towards a gratifying portrait of self-realization.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

  1. Anderson, L. (2001). Autobiography. London: Routledge.
  2. Coetzee, J. M. (Summer 1985). “Confession and the Double Thoughts: Tolstoy, Rousseau, Dostoevsky”. Comparative Literature, 34 (3), 193-232. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771079
  3. Coetzee, J. M. (1998). Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. New York: Penguin.
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  5. Coetzee, J. M. (2003). Youth. London: Vintage.
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Çeviri ve Yorum Çalışmaları, İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2013

Gönderilme Tarihi

1 Şubat 2013

Kabul Tarihi

2 Mart 2013

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2013 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Büyüktuncay, M. (2013). Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction. Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi, 3(1), 61-70. https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ
AMA
1.Büyüktuncay M. Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction. MJH. 2013;3(1):61-70. https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ
Chicago
Büyüktuncay, Mehmet. 2013. “Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction”. Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi 3 (1): 61-70. https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ.
EndNote
Büyüktuncay M (01 Haziran 2013) Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction. Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi 3 1 61–70.
IEEE
[1]M. Büyüktuncay, “Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction”, MJH, c. 3, sy 1, ss. 61–70, Haz. 2013, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ
ISNAD
Büyüktuncay, Mehmet. “Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction”. Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi 3/1 (01 Haziran 2013): 61-70. https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ.
JAMA
1.Büyüktuncay M. Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction. MJH. 2013;3:61–70.
MLA
Büyüktuncay, Mehmet. “Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction”. Akdeniz İnsani Bilimler Dergisi, c. 3, sy 1, Haziran 2013, ss. 61-70, https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ.
Vancouver
1.Mehmet Büyüktuncay. Scenes from Provincial Life: Authenticity and Ethics of (Auto) Biographical Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Trilogy of Auto-fiction. MJH [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2013;3(1):61-70. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA77KC32UJ

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