Life and Times of Michael K
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  • Coetzee, J.M.. Life & Times of Michael K. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1985.

  • Mitchell, Erin. "Towards the Garden of the Mothers: Relocating the Capacity to Narrate in J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K." Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, no. 91 (1998): 87-101.

  • Durrant, Samuel. "Bearing Witness to Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning." Contemporary Literature 40, no. 3 (1999): 430-63.

  • Wittenberg, Hermann. "Film and Photography in J. M. Coetzee's "Life & Times of Michael K"." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 58, no. 4 (2016): 473-92.

  • WRIGHT, DEREK. "BLACK EARTH, WHITE MYTH: COETZEE'S "MICHAEL K"." Modern Fiction Studies 38, no. 2 (1992): 435-44.

  • CHESNEY, DUNCAN McCOLL. "Toward an Ethics of Silence: Michael K." Criticism 49, no. 3 (2007): 307-25.

  • BABCOCK, DAVID. "Professional Subjectivity and the Attenuation of Character in J. M. Coetzee's "Life & Times of Michael K"." PMLA 127, no. 4 (2012): 890-904.

  • Vital, Anthony. "Toward an African Ecocriticism: Postcolonialism, Ecology and "Life & Times of Michael K"." Research in African Literatures 39, no. 1 (2008): 87-106.

  • Marais, Michael. "Languages of Power: A Story of Reading Coetzee's "Michael K"/Michael K." English in Africa 16, no. 2 (1989): 31-48.

  • "Coetzee's Curt Answers." The Age. 4/21/20. <https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/coetzees-curt-answers-20040303-gdxf5d.html>.
  • "Coetzee, Writer of Apartheid As Bleak Mirror, Wins Nobel." New York Times. 4/21/20. <https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/books/coetzee-writer-of-apartheid-as-bleak-mirror-wins-nobel.html>.
  • Popescu, Monica. "The argument over J.M. Coetzee." Africa is a Country. 4/21/20. <https://africasacountry.com/2013/09/the-argument-over-j-m-coetzee>.
  • "Out of South Africa." New York Times. 4/20/20. <Out of South Africa>.
  • Bolin, John. "Modernism, Idiocy, and the Work of Culture:J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K." Project Muse. 4/22/20. <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589312>.
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