English 3554E Lecture : 3554E-26 March 2014.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 3554E
• Professor: Jonathan Boulter

Document Summary

Interprets them as signifying acts of criminality: deliberately confronting empire with the evidence of its own crime, the magistrate knows that he is distancing himself intentionally from the empire, coetzee writes this novel as an allegory to avoid being folded into the states own fantasies, the magistrate use allegory as a way to separate itself from his own complicity and the empire, hermeneutics means translation, has a political aspect that can resist power, is translating a language he doesn"t know, but it is a truth that the empire needs to see, power in order to maintain itself has to give the people its ruling the illusion of resistance , moments where they can release, calls them acts of subversion, power is allowing those who are ruled to resist.