“We are all souls”: Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin

Authors

  • Henrietta Mondry University of Canterbury, Canterbury

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i3.5508

Keywords:

borderlands, dog-man, heterotopia, marginality

Abstract

Examining the notion of “dog-men” in Coetzee’s Disgrace and Tyulkin’s documentary Not about Dogs, I argue that when the main characters become dog-men and dog-women they share with dogs the status of subaltern border-creatures. I view the spaces in the Eastern Cape and eastern Kazakhstan as borderlands which parallel the mythic lands of Dog-men from White’s anthropological study Myths of the Dog-man. These spaces of human-dog interactions, in turn, relate to Foucauldian heterotopias as sites that establish alternative modes of power relations.

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Author Biography

  • Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, Canterbury

    Henrietta Mondry is Professor in the Department of Global, Languages and
    Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Published

2018-08-27

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How to Cite

Mondry, H. (2018). “We are all souls”: Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin. Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 55(3), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i3.5508