Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's 'Disgrace' and Other Works

Laura Wright is associate professor of postcolonial literature and chair of the English Department at Western Carolina University. She is author of Writing "Out of All the Camps" J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement and "Wilderness into Civilized Shapes" Reading the Postcolonial Environment. Jane Poyner is senior lecturer in postcolonial literature and theory in the Department of English at the University of Exeter. She is author of J. M. Coetzee and the Paradox of Postcolonial Authorship and editor of J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual. Elleke Boehmer is professor of world literature in English at the University of Oxford. She is author of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; Empire, the National and the Postcolonial; Nelson Mandela; and Stories of Women. She has coedited J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory; The Indian Postcolonial; and The Postcolonial Low Countries. She has had published four novels and a collection of short stories.

"The sheer range of critical and pedagogical approaches canvased is little short of astonishing, and the ingenuity and effort that these teachers of Coetzee put into preparing their courses should be a source of real inspiration to their readers." --Gareth Cornwell, Rhodes University, South Africa