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Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib

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November 2006, no. 286

Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib

Peter Lang, £36 pb, 314 pp

Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib

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November 2006, no. 286

Michela Canepari-Labib is an Italian scholar of English literature and cultural theory. In Old Myths: Modern Empires, she sets out to map J.M. Coetzee’s work onto the major cultural theories of the twentieth century. Coetzee is just as familiar as she with the theories, and no doubt they have had their influence. But anyone can write novels based on Freud and Lacan: what is missing from Canepari-Labib’s account is everything that makes Coetzee worth reading.

Gillian Dooley reviews ‘Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work’ by Michela Canepari-Labib

Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work

by Michela Canepari-Labib

Peter Lang, £36 pb, 314 pp

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