On JM Coetzee by Ceridwen Dovey culture-wars technology and the Australian way

technology and the Australian way of war

built on colonial occupation

they call it the ‘angels’ share’

social and political impact of Australia’s treatment of people seeking asylum over the last fifty years

and the lost scream

On JM Coetzee by Ceridwen Dovey culture-wars technology and the Australian wayI 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.