Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee

Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide, Australia. and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His previous books include Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (2017), South African Textual Cultures (2007), and, as editor or co-editor, Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (2012), Zoë Wicomb's Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays (2018), and South African Writing in Transition (2019).Lucy Valerie Graham is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

• Part One: Life, Institutions, Reception1. On the idea of a handbook to the works of J. M. Coetzee: ‘Preposterous [?]’ Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham2. Life & times of J. M. Coetzee Jane Poyner3. Autobiographies/autrebiographies/biographies Alexandra Effe4. J. M. Coetzee and his publishers Andrea ThorpePart Two: Early Coetzee5. Coetzee’s poetry Jarad Zimbler6. Dusklands Rita Barnard7. In the Heart of the Country Ian Glenn8. Waiting for the Barbarians Jennifer Wenzel9. Life & Times of Michael K Eckard SmutsPart Three: Late- and post-apartheid Coetzee10. Foe Patrick Flanery11. Age of Iron Katherine Hallemeier12. The Master of Petersburg Derek Attridge13. Disgrace Chris Holmes14. J. M. Coetzee’s apartheid-era criticism Xiaoran HuPart Four: Late-style Coetzee15. The Costello project Andrew van der Vlies16. Diary of a Bad Year Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice17. The Jesus novels Timothy Bewes18. Later criticism and correspondence Nick MulgrewPart Five: Style, Form, Ideas19. Coetzee’s style Carrol Clarkson20. Coetzee, religion and philosophy Alice Brittan21. Coetzee, gender and sexuality Laura Wright22. Coetzee and the nonhuman Daniel Williams23. Coetzee, computers and binary thinking Rebecca Roach24. Coetzee’s humour Huw Marsh25. Education and the novels of J. M. Coetzee Aparna Mishra TarcPart Six: Contexts, Intertexts, Influence26. Coetzee and the history of the novel Andrew Dean27. Coetzee’s South Africans Jan Steyn28. Coetzee’s modernists Paul Sheehan29. Coetzee’s Mitteleuropa and Austro-Hungary Russell Samolsky30. Coetzee, Israel, Palestine Louise Bethlehem, Dalia Abu-Sbitan and Shir Dannon31. Coetzee’s Russians Jeanne-Marie Jackson32. Coetzee’s Latin America Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra33. Coetzee’s Australians Michelle CahillPart Seven: Intermediation, adaptation, translation34. Coetzee and photography Hermann Wittenberg35. Coetzee and the visual arts Sean O’Toole36. J. M. Coetzee and the work of music Graham K. Riach37. Adapting Coetzee for the stage and screen Ed Charlton38. Coetzee and translation Jan WilmIndex

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, to my mind, effects such a deepening in informative and often powerful ways. While of primary interest to the specialist, it will be a valuable point of reference for anyone who has been stirred by the reach and depth of Coetzee’s writing, and, who, like the boy David and his guardian Simón in the Schooldays of Jesus (2016), attempts to execute new steps and thereby learn to ‘dance the universe’.