Imraan coovadia biography of albert
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The airport is deserted at two in the morning, Pyongyang time. A tractor stands on the apron behind an unroofed, unpainted cargo container. It hisses into life as he passes into the custody of the ground guards. The turboprop, which has brought him all the way from Karachi, spins down its engine. He looks back at the aircraft. The red bulb mounted above the wing has been his companion through six hours of uneven sleep. Now it blinks, and turns off. The phalanx moves him through the terminal, past rows of formica desks and tables. They square up on the main road, in silence.
The doctor is accustomed to his hosts’ reticence, to their military demeanor. He knows not to speak until spoken to. It doesn’t happen until he’s deposited in the back seat of an old Zil limousine that must date back to the Truman Administration. His translator’s is the first voice he hears on the ground in North Korea. Joon Sung-Lee looks hardly a day into her twenties. She sits beside him as rectilinear in her posture as an oil rig. With her plum brown eyes and rectangular haircut, she owns a postbox mouth which opens and closes, he notices, without implicating her stiff face.
He also notices the epaulettes on Joon’s blouse which must signify military rank. Everyone he meets, in North Korea, is an offic
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That’s it, it was very very naïve. Well, it was so American-centric that it was embarrassing. We were saying, she should hang her head in shame, that’s all. As for me, very often I am struck to see to what point people naively betray their fantasy. I am like a psychoanalyst who sees a patient like that, let us say, show their libido. She betrayed this so innocently, in other words, whereas if she had had even a little sense of the field, she could have used it as a strategy to hide a little.
Pierre Bourdieu, “The Lost Bourdieu Interview”
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Coovadia and the attack on Coetzee
Imraan Coovadia, novelist, associate professor in the English Department at the University of Cape Town, and teacher in its creative writing programme, has written a controversial essay on JM Coetzee, novelist, former academic in the English Department at the University of Cape Town and one of the founders of the creative writing pro