On JM Coetzee by Ceridwen Dovey culture-wars and the lost scream

and the lost scream

We are now in the Anthropocene – humans are changing the earth’s climate irreversibly

they call it the ‘angels’ share’

But that model has been exhausted by capitalism’s extended crisis and the end of the mining boom

On JM Coetzee by Ceridwen Dovey culture-wars and the lost screamI was born in the year J. M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again. For Ceridwen Dovey, J. M.