Research Catalog

Title

Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works / edited by Laura Wright, Jane Poyner and Elleke Boehmer.

Publication

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2014.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
• Poyner, Jane
• Wright, Laura, 1970-

Description

vii, 227 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 130

Uniform Title

Approaches to teaching world literature 130.

Subject

• Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
• Coetzee, J. M., 1940- > Study and teaching
• Coetzee, John M., 1940-
• Disgrace (Coetzee, J. M.)
• Study skills
• Roman
• Literaturunterricht
• Hochschuldidaktik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Teaching with/out authority -- Prologue: why not to teach Coetzee -- What does it mean to teach The Lives of Animals or Disgrace? -- Horizons not only of expectation: Lessons from In the Heart of the Country -- Teaching Coetzee's subject: Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace -- Coetzee's other Other: an existential approach to teaching Disgrace -- Reading Coetzee's worldiness -- Teaching the critique of Romanticism and Empire in Disgrace -- Teaching Coetzee, then and now -- "[From] Whom This Writing Then?" Politics, aesthetics, and the personal in Coetzee's Age of Iron -- Refusing adamastor: Lucy Lurie and "White Writing" in Disgrace -- Countering context: teaching Disgrace in the New South Africa -- Teaching Coetzee and Australia -- Teaching Coetzee's American contexts; or, How I teach America-and Africa--in Cullowhee, North Carolina -- Teaching Disgrace at the University of Cape Town -- Pedagogies of discomfort: teaching Coetzee's The Lives of Animals -- Open to interpretation: politics and allegory in Coetzee's Waiting for Barbarians -- Who's approaching whose voice in Coetzee's Life & Time of Michael K? -- Biopolitical Coetzee; or, "The will to be against" -- Reconciling, Whiteness: Disgrace as postcolonial text at a historically Black university -- Teaching Coetzee's The Lives of Animals in the first-year composition classroom -- Teaching Coetzee's Foe in an undergraduate theory classroom -- Coetzee and close reading.

ISBN

• 9781603291385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1603291385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781603291392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1603291393 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781603291774 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781603291781 (kindle) (canceled/invalid)
• 1603291776 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 1603291784 (kindle) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014000030

OCLC

• 858126254
• SCSB-12334143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library