@inproceedings{edb5e3e8f9ec4eddb934d04f6fa0b94f,
title = "A Literary Antidote to Dignity-Based Conflict: J. M. Coetzee's Ethics of Natural- Rather than Public-Spiritedness",
abstract = "South-African Novelist J. M. Coetzee's fiction promotes the ethical potential of the shamanic sense of the body and nature which should replace traditionally valorized stances such as resistance, self-sacrifice, and public-spiritedness. For Coetzee, the latter (apparently heroic) stances are based in egotism (disguised behind a more palatable {"}dignity{"}) rather than altruism and are thus a self-destructive and unsound grounds for ethics. Coetzee's writings subscribe to what could be labeled natural-spiritedness as opposed to public-spiritedness. While public-spiritedness is predicated on political activism that cannot work without some form of intransigent resistance to the other, natural-spiritedness places ultimate value in natural oneness with and {"}surrender{"} to the other. This paper mainly focuses on Coetzee's novels In the Heart of the Country (1977) and Waiting for the Barbarians (1980).",
keywords = "conflict, fiction, dignity, Coetzee, ethics, Nature inspired",
author = "Mohammad, \{Malek Hardan\}",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
language = "American English",
volume = "2186",
series = "Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Literature \& Librarianship 2014 ",
publisher = "The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)",
pages = "196--206",
booktitle = "The Asian Conference on Literature \& Librarianship 2014",
address = "Japan",
edition = "229X",
}
