White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa.

COETZEE, J.M.

$4,000.00

Item Number: 108011

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

First edition of the Nobel Prize winning-author’s first book of criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, “Philippe- Love from John.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1968 graduated with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages. His doctoral dissertation was on the early fiction of Samuel Beckett.  Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

These collection of essays discuss the white literature of South Africa, explain how white writings attempt to justify colonization, and look at the novels of van den Heever and Millin.