# White Writing > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/White_Writing > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/White_Writing.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Writing > Source revision: 1258752787 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Collection of essays by J. M. Coetzee This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "White Writing" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. Please help summarise the quotations. Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote or excerpts to Wikisource. (September 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) First (1988) edition Cover artist: [Thomas William Bowler](/source/Thomas_William_Bowler), *Graham's Town from the Bay Road*, 1865 ***White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa*** is a collection of essays by Nobel-laureate [J. M. Coetzee](/source/J._M._Coetzee), originally published in 1988, and in 2007 was reprinted, with a new introduction, by Pentz Publishers ([ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780980270006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780980270006)). "Since it first appeared in 1988, JM Coetzee's first volume of criticism has emerged as an indispensable reference in the study of South African literature. In the seven essays comprising the collection, he reads a range of texts, in various genres, which represent the endeavours of white writers to come to terms with the South African landscape and their tenuous place within it. The seven essays concern a wide range of works written in both English and Afrikaans, including the nineteenth-century travel writing of William Burchell, which compares the landscapes of England and South Africa, always to the latter's detriment, is discussed in relation to subsequent engagements by Thomas Pringle, WEG Louw, WC Scully and Roy Campbell. In addition to landscape, land ownership and pastoralist ideologies, the studies address the versions of race developed, implicitly or explicitly, in writings by authors as diverse as Pauline Smith, Mikro, Alan Paton and Gertrude Millin."[1] *John Maxwell Coetzee* is an author and academic from South Africa. He became an Australian citizen in 2006 after relocating there in 2002. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. ## Another use of the term "White Writing" *White writing* is also a term used to describe the abstract artworks of visual artist Mark Tobey (1890-1976), "Mark Tobey was a leading painter of the Northwest School, one of the four "Northwest Mystics" described in a 1953 Life magazine article that proclaimed the "Mystic Painters of the Pacific Northwest." Tobey became renowned for an energetic, Eastern influenced "white writing" style of abstraction painted originally to express the frenetic pulse of New York City, a style which influenced Jackson Pollock among others. "[2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** CM van den Heever, as cited in [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0980270006) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Mark Tobey"](https://www.panamericanart.com/artists/644-mark-tobey/). *Pan American Art Projects*. Retrieved 2024-09-13. - [\[1\]](https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40238664) - [\[2\]](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204258/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/16016312/white-writing-culture-letters-south-africa) - [\[3\]](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jm-coetzee/white-writing/) v t e Works by J. M. Coetzee Novels Dusklands (1974) In the Heart of the Country (1977) Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) Life & Times of Michael K (1983) Foe (1986) Age of Iron (1990) The Master of Petersburg (1994) The Lives of Animals (1999) Disgrace (1999) Elizabeth Costello (2003) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) The Childhood of Jesus (2013) The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) The Death of Jesus (2019) The Pole and Other Stories (2023) "Autrebiography" Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) Summertime (2009) Criticism and letters White Writing (1988) Inner Workings (2007) Here and Now (2013) Adaptations Dust (film, 1985) The Lives of Animals (TV film, 2002) Waiting for the Barbarians (opera, 2006) Disgrace (film, 2008) Slow Man (opera, 2014) Waiting for the Barbarians (film, 2019) This article about an essay or essay collection is a stub. 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