TY - JOUR
T1 - What used to lie outside the frame
T2 - Boundaries of photography, subjectivity and fiction in three novels by J.M. Coetzee
AU - Amir, Ayala
N1 - Published online: 18 Nov 2013
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - SummaryThe concept of frame and its inherent tensions, as addressed by contemporary thinking, is the theoretical focus of this article, which examines representations of photography in three of J.M. Coetzees novels (Dusklands ([1974]1983), Age of Iron (1990) and Slow Man (2005)). Photography is treated as a site where Coetzee explores the issues that preoccupy him throughout his work: subjectivity, its boundaries and the possibility of intersubjectivity in relation to the very act of storytelling. The article offers a metaphorical reading of such elements of photography as the blow-up, the negative and digital photography in order to reflect upon Coetzees engagement with the possibility of openness to transformation, otherness and futurity implied by both the photographic frame and intersubjectivity in life as well as in fiction.
AB - SummaryThe concept of frame and its inherent tensions, as addressed by contemporary thinking, is the theoretical focus of this article, which examines representations of photography in three of J.M. Coetzees novels (Dusklands ([1974]1983), Age of Iron (1990) and Slow Man (2005)). Photography is treated as a site where Coetzee explores the issues that preoccupy him throughout his work: subjectivity, its boundaries and the possibility of intersubjectivity in relation to the very act of storytelling. The article offers a metaphorical reading of such elements of photography as the blow-up, the negative and digital photography in order to reflect upon Coetzees engagement with the possibility of openness to transformation, otherness and futurity implied by both the photographic frame and intersubjectivity in life as well as in fiction.
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U2 - 10.1080/02564718.2013.856656
DO - 10.1080/02564718.2013.856656
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SN - 0256-4718
VL - 29
SP - 58
EP - 79
JO - Journal of Literary Studies
JF - Journal of Literary Studies
IS - 4
ER -