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Might this spectrality perhaps Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text 23 reveal itself between the lines or as a catch in the voice, so to speak? 3 Is it possible to read Coetzee’s expatriate formalism in Elizabeth Costello, its laboured metafictionality, as somehow ‘contaminated’ by the traces of a repudiated content? Where does this content resist its repudiation, over and above the spectrality of the bodies, veiled or perhaps in plain view, in the Marianhill clinic of Elizabeth Costello’s sister Blanche (Coetzee 2003: 134)?
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