1. "Father makes merry with children" : madness and mythology in Dusklands -- 2. Refusing to "yield to the spectre of reason" : the madwoman in the attic in In the heart of the country -- 3. Madness and civilization in Waiting for the barbarians -- 4. Cultivating the margins in the trial of Michael K : "strategies in the service of skepticism" -- 5. Bodying forth the other : Friday and the "discursive situation" in Foe -- 6. Writing in the face of death : "false etymologies" and home truths in the Age of iron -- 7. Evading the censor/censoring the self in The master of Petersburg -- 8. Truth and reconciliation in Disgrace -- 9. Coetzee's acts of genre in the later works : truth-telling, fiction and the public intellectual