Migration and the South in J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Novels

• Published in: Journal of modern literature Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 127 - 139
• Main Author: Boehmer, Elleke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Australians; British & Irish literature; Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989); Coetzee, J M (1940- ); English literature; Geography; Migrants; Migration; Novels; Poetics; South African literature; Australia; South Africa; United Kingdom; Argentina; Karoo; Southern Hemisphere

The first two novels in South African and Australian writer J.M. Coetzee's Jesus novel trilogy invite being read as studies in migration that explore the ambiguities of crossing over and arriving in a seeming "new life," as it is repeatedly called. The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and Th...