J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual Book

	J. M. Coetzee in conversation with Jane Poyner	21
1	The life and times of Elizabeth Costello : J. M. Coetzee and the public sphere	25
2	The writer, the critic, and the censor : J. M. Coetzee and the question of literature	42
3	Against allegory : Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, and the question of literary reading	63
4	Death and the space of the response to the other in J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg	83
5	A belief in frogs : J. M. Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction	100
6	J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the limits of the sympathetic imagination	118
7	Sorry, sorrier, sorriest : the gendering of contrition in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace	135
8	Going to the dogs : humanity in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, The Lives of Animals, and South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission	148
9	What is it like to be a nonracist? : Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men	172
10	A feminist-vegetarian defense of Elizabeth Costello : a rant from an ethical academic on J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals	193
11	Textual transvestism : the female voices of J. M. Coetzee	217