Coetzee, however, inserts a number of global/political issues into his self-reflexive discussion of chronotopal creation and definition.This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. Beckett and Coetzee employ similar indeterminate and self-reflexive chronotopal strategies in their novels.
Their reassertion of spatiality reconnects the two halves of the spatio-temporal framework of the chronotope in narrative. Spatial theorists like Edward Soja and Henri Lefebvre, among others, have attempted to reassert issues of space in what has been an ontological and epistemological framework that has prioritized time. Lyotard's claim that postmodernism resists totalizing structures and Hutcheon's contention that it engages in a simultaneous complicity and critique inform the relationships between time and space in both Beckett's and Coetzee's text.Īdditionally, theories of postmodern space contribute to the more specific discussion of the postmodern chronotopes in both novels. I contextualize the discussion by introducing theories of postmodernism, specifically those of Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon. This narrative creation produces what I call a "postmodern creative chronotope" that self-reflexively embraces indeterminacy at the same time that it critiques the elements that produce this indefinite relationship between time and space, a strategy that is especially postmodern. In each novel, characters as authors create or discuss "inner" narratives that reflect upon the way chronotopes are created in fiction and reveal problematic aspects of those chronotopes. The second chapter addresses the self-reflexive creation of this postmodern space within each novel's hypodiegetic narratives and discussions of narrative creation within each respective diegetic narratives. Bakhtin's idea of the chronotope found in his work The Dialogic Imagination. The first chapter analyzes the indeterminate nature of postmodern space within the two novels as related to M. Coetzee's Foe-and is separated into two chapters. This study addresses two works of fiction-Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies and J.
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