Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. ...

My reading of JM. Coetzee’s Disgrace is informed by the deployment of the concept of exilic consciousness by postcolonial theorists, notably Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, and literary critic Julia Kristeva, to project an ...