Deconstruction of Myths and Self-anatomization: On Coetzee's Contribution to Post-colonial Theory

From the point of view of the imperial diasporas intellectuals, Coetzee has constructed his own literary theory in the post-colonial context by deconstructing Western centrism and canon, by deconstructing the imperial myths, and by self-anatomizing the imperial ideaology from the inside of the right-wing camps. The special features of his theory are: The colonial culture not only affects the colonized but also colonizers and their descendant settlers, who are both involved in a dilemma of cultural value selection. The approach of racial conflict "white and non-white" is not adoptable any longer in the new situation of the recent development. Thus there leaves a theoretical blank space of study, that is, the living and writing situation of the imperial diasporas descendants who are still living in the former colonies. The field of this space is practically becoming a new "margin" of modernity criticism.