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Iconicity, immersion and otherness: the Hegelian 'dive' of J. M. Coetzee and Adrienne Rich
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Iconicity, immersion and otherness: the Hegelian 'dive' of J. M. Coetzee and Adrienne Rich

Barbara J. Eckstein
Mosaic, Vol.29(1), pp.57-77
1996

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Abstract

This essay explores the way that "diving into the wreck" provides a dialogic link between Coetzee's postcolonial novel Foe and Rich's feminist poetry, in the context of Hegel's emphasis upon immersion as a means to comprehending an/other. The iconic sign is shown to provide a ladder from arbitrary word to physical object, which in the case of Friday is the plan of a slave ship.
English Language and Literature

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