J. M. Coetzee’s fame as a novelist, a critic and a linguist has reached far and wide, making him most popular contemporary living writer. He has been writing committedly even after receiving Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. He is recipient of a number of other awards also, including Booker Prize for twice. A number of his novels have become a part of curricula at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the universities across the world. His popularity in academia is such that there have been conferences dedicated exclusively to him or to his selected works. Most of Coetzee’s works grapple with the questions concerning dichotomies of power and powerlessness, of voice and silence, of agency and lack of it. All these issues being the subject matter of postcolonial studies, this book attempts a postcolonial critique of him as expressed through his works, focusing particularly on the representation of SILENCE and POWER RELATIONS in his famous works. The book tries to capture the multifaceted nuances of silence employed by Coetzee, and the shifting allegiances of power depicted by him.
