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His appropriation of an iconic signifier and his passing resemblance to Christopher Reeve mark him quixotically as a "safe" subject.
Secret identities: the superhero simulacrum and the nation by Yockey, Matt / CineAction
They disagree over the meaning of what would constitute a Third Republic; they cannot reach a consensus over relations with Lebanon's Muslim communities; their leaders are fighting over who will be best placed to be the interlocutor with regional powers; and as they contemplate their communal decline, the reaction is either to quixotically seek to recover their past power, or to imagine scenarios of renewal in schemes of self-isolation.
Christian confusion is Lebanon's loss by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
This novel, as with so many of Coetzee's works, was received by South African audiences and critics as quixotically, even irresponsibly, allegorical and abstract within the flammable context of late apartheid.
The postcolonial Gothic: time and death in southern African literature by Gaylard, Gerald / Journal of Literary Studies
 
 
 
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