LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Interrogating Apartheid: An Analysis of J M Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K

Imran Ahmad, M. A., M. Phil.

John Maxwell (formerly Michael) Coetzee, a novelist, essayist, academic of great repute, literary critic and above all a Nobel laureate, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940. He was the first novelist to be awarded the Booker Prize twice. In 2003 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his work in which, according to Westberg, Coetzee has frequently “given voice to those outside the hierarchies of the mighty. With intellectual honesty and density of feeling, in a prose of icy precision, [he has] unveiled the masks of our civilization and uncovered the topography of evil” (Gregory O’Dea, 2004: 2).

The Strength of the African Novel – the Reciprocal Nature of Art and Society

Commitment to the socio-politico-historical reality has been, and continues to be, the forte of African novel in general, and South African novel in particular, since the 1950s. In the face of social exigencies and the gravity and intensity of socio-political vicissitudes emerges the writers’ commitment to address the problems faced by their society and seek solutions thereby.

A piece of literature is a social phenomenon in the sense that it does not grow from a vacuum; rather it is conditioned by the socio-economic and politico-historical circumstances of the time. The relationship between the two – art and society – is a reciprocal one: art influences society and vice versa. Events in the history of a society, therefore, cannot but be a source of inspiration to its writers. Literature in this sense is considered to be an effective means of chronicling and analyzing societal problems and aspirations.

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Imran Ahmad, M.A., M. Phil.
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