《小说在非洲》是演讲稿 ,也是短篇小说 ,探讨非洲后殖民文学中小说和小说家的文化属性问题。本文运用巴赫金的对话理论 ,指出库切的对话型思想、思维模式和意识贯穿整个文本 ,两种体裁的创造性融合起到了彰显和深化主题的作用 “Novel in Africa” ​​is a speech and a short story, exploring the cultural attributes of novels and novelists in post-colonial African literature. This article uses Bakhtin’s dialogue theory to point out that Coetzee’s dialogical thinking, thinking patterns and awareness are permeated throughout the text. The creative fusion of the two genres serves to highlight and deepen the theme