Introduction / Sue Kossew -- J.M. Coetzee: Writing in the Middle Voice / Teresa Dovey -- "The Labyrinth of My History": J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands / David Attwell -- Literature and Politics: Currents in South African Writing in the Seventies / Michael Vaughan -- Charting J.M. Coetzee's Middle Voice: In the Heart of the Country / Brian MaCaskill -- "A Bored Spinster with a Locked Diary": The Politics of Hysteria in In the Heart of the Country / Chiara Briganti -- Irony, Allegory and Empire: Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country / Bill Ashcroft -- Towards a True Materialism [Review of Waiting for the Barbarians] / Menan Du Plessis -- Intertextuality, Power and Danger: Waiting for the Barbarians as a Dirty Story / Judie Newman -- The Idea of Gardening: Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee [Review] / Nadine Gordimer -- Making the "Revolutionary Gesture": Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and Some Variations on the Writer's Responsibility / Kelly Hewson.

The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of "Woman" / Josephine Dodd -- "Women's Words": A Reading of J. M. Coetzee's Women Narrators / Sue Kossew -- An Allegory of Re-Reading: Post-colonialism, Resistance, and J. M. Coetzee's Foe / Kwaku Larbi Korang -- Literary Form and the Demands of Politics: Otherness in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron / Derek Attridge -- Cancerous Bodies and Apartheid in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron / Fiona Probyn -- Places of Pigs: The Tension between Implication and Transcendence in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and The Master of Petersburg / Mike Marais.