Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Materials / Jane Poyner

Contexts and Criticism

Disgrace

Other Works

Form

Intertextuality

Further Resources

Historical Background to South Africa

Biographical Resources

Supplemental Student Reading

Multimedia, Internet, and Other Resources

Part 2. Approaches

Introduction: Teaching with/out Authority / Laura Wright

On Difficulty

Prologue: Why Not to Teach Coetzee / Rita Barnard

What Does It Mean to Teach The Lives of Animals or Disgrace? / Michael Bell

Intellectual Contexts

Horizons Not Only of Expectation: Lessons from In the Heart of the Country / Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn

Teaching Coetzee's Subject: Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace / Stephen Clingman

Coetzee's Other Other: An Existential Approach to Teaching Disgrace / Erik Crayson

Reading Coetzee's Worldliness / Johan Geertsema

Teaching the Critique of Romanticism and Empire in Disgrace / Pieter Vermeulen

Historical and Cultural Contexts

Teaching Coetzee, Then and Now / David Attwell

"[From] Whom This Writing Then?" Politics, Aesthetics, and the Personal in Coetzee's Age of Iron / Andrew van der Vlies

Refusing Adamastor: Lncy Lurie and "White Writing" in Disgrace / Louise Bethlehem

Countering Context: Teaching Disgrace in the New South Africa / Gerald Gaylard

Teaching Coetzee and Australia / Elleke Boehmer

Teaching Coetzee's American Contexts; or, How I Teach America-and Africa-in Cullowhee, North Carolina / Laura Wright

Ethics and Representation

Teaching Disgrace at the University of Cape Town / Carrol Clarkson

Pedagogies of Discomfort: Teaching Coetzee's The Lives of Animals / Wendy Woodward

Open to Interpretation: Politics and Allegory in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians / Robert Spencer

Who's Appropriating Whose Voice in Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K? / Patricia Merivale

Biopolitical Coetzee; or, "The Will to Be Against" / Keith Leslie Johnson

Classroom Contexts

Reconciling Whiteness: Disgrace as Postcolonial Text at a Historically Black University / Kay Heath

Teaching Coetzee's The Lives of Animals in the First-Year Composition Classroom / Shannon Payne

Teaching Coetzee's Foe in an Undergraduate Theory Classroom / Emily S. Davis

Coetzee and Close Reading / Patrick Hayes

Notes on Contributors

Survey Respondents

Works Cited

Index