Jin-Hao Yang

Giving Him Up: The Ethics of Renunciation in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Critics of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace have long read its ending through the vocabularies of shame, grace, and redemption. This article argues that the novel systematically dismantles the social preconditions of redemption itself. On Lucy Lurie’s farm—a space that answers closely to Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception”—...