Desire and Disinterest in Dusklands.
Disinterest is one of the most distrusted of all the terms which pass down to us from post-Kantian aesthetic theory, because it is often taken to imply an ideologically suspect transcendence of the desiring embodied subject. Yet the need to which it points persists, as is evident from Coetzee's essa...
| Publicado en: | English in Africa Vol. 52; no. 1/2; pp. 147 - 166 |
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