![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. This first book of essays devoted to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy. It also challengedreaders worldwide to confront its hard questions. The novel's uncompromising portrayal of the "new" South Africa outraged many, who found the book regressive, even racist. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.Įver since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. ![]()
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