Intimations of Parental Care in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Age of Iron

This article investigates themes of family relations, parental responsibility, and the ethics of care in J. M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” (1980) and “Age of Iron” (1990) within a relevant sociopolitical and philosophical context. Coetzee’s treatment of parental relations in his apartheid...

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies

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