Dusklands | The Master Myth of History: Dusklands
In the following essay excerpt, Gallagher analyzes the two parts of Dusklands—“The Vietnam Project” and “The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee”—within the context of myth-making and colonialism.
The first dark land we enter is America in the throes of the Vietnam War. “The Vietnam Project” is divided into five sections, four of which appear to be diary entries recounting events in the life of Eugene Dawn. In the opening section, Dawn recounts all of his paranoia: his supervisor—one J. M. Coetzee—does not like his writing style; he suspects his wife, Marilyn, is having an affair; he loathes and feels trapped in his body. The second section, written in bureaucratic jargon with subheadings and references, contains Dawn’s report for the New Life Project, a...
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