Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work
Peter Lang, £36 pb, 314 pp
Old Myths: Modern empires: power, language and identity in J.M. Coetzee’s work by Michela Canepari-Labib
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.
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