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Intimate Practices: Music, Sex, and the Body in J. M. Coetzee's Summertime
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 2, June 2017
- pp. 99-115
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a663692
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay addresses the role of music in J. M. Coetzee's recent prose. Taking Summertime as a central example, it argues that Coetzee finds in music a means of problematizing issues of body and mind, of history and mediation, and of gender and sexuality.