- Title
- JM Coetzee's Disgrace: a reader's guide, and: JM Coetzee's austerities
- Creator
- Marais, Mike
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144231
- Identifier
- vital:38323
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.42.4.135
- Description
- Like all of the other publications in the series of which it forms a part, Andrew van der Vlies's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide conforms to a set format: a preface, followed by biographical information on the novelist and the context in which he or she wrote the text concerned, and then a longer section comprising a paraphrase and discussion of the work and its reception, together with suggestions for further reading. Despite these structural constraints, van der Vlies provides a very fine introduction to Disgrace in this volume. Readers will find especially insightful his treatment of Coetzee's preoccupation with alterity, and the responsibility, both ethical and aesthetic, that such otherness exacts. One very slight criticism I have of the monograph is that it could have contained more references to discussions of Coetzee's use of narrative point of view in its list of recommended reading. (James Meffan and Kim Worthington's examination of the ambivalent relationship between David Lurie and the narrator's voice comes to mind here, for instance.) Having said this, however, I have little doubt that van der Vlies's guide will prove a useful and comprehensive introduction to Disgrace in university programs.
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Research in African Literatures, Marais, M., 2011. JM Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide, and: JM Coetzee's Austerities. Research in African Literatures, 42(4), pp.135-137., Research in African Literatures volume 42 number 4 135 137 2011 1527-2044
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