First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel,
combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Ever since it was
first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel
Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South
Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace
through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the
shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. The novel's uncompromising
portrayal of the "new" South Africa outraged many, who found the
book regressive, even racist. It also challengedreaders worldwide
to confront its hard questions. This first book of essays devoted
to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy.
The ten critical essays and eight essays on teaching Disgrace
grapple with the ethical issues the novel so provocatively raises:
rape, gender, race, animal rights. Disgrace is widely taught in
colleges and universities and read in book clubs; the debates it
has given rise to will take on fresh life with the release of the
upcoming film starring John Malkovich. Unusually, the eighteen
contributors to the collection are all faculty members or graduates
of the same institution, the Johnston Center for Integrative
Studies atthe University of Redlands, and have worked together
closely in crafting their essays over the past two years. The
volume will be exceptionally useful to teachers of literature,
philosophy, and South African culture, to book clubleaders, and to
all readers of Coetzee. Contributors: Nancy Best, James Boobar,
Bradley Butterfield, Jane Creighton, Matthew Gray, Pat Harrigan,
Gary Hawkins, Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Daniel Kiefer, Bill
McDonald, Michael G. McDunnah, Kim Middleton, Kevin O'Neill,
Raymond Obstfeld, Kathy Ogren, Kenneth Reinhard, Sandra D.
Shattuck, Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Julie Townsend. Bill McDonald
is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Redlands,
Redlands, California.
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