AustLit

'Laura Wright, Jane Poyner, and Elleke Boehmer’s Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works includes contributions that were selected based on a global questionnaire sent to university teachers; twenty-seven responded and twelve are included in the collection. As Poyner indicates in the volume’s first section, “Materials,” the bulk of the contributors are from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States (3). Readers are not privy to how and where the questionnaire was distributed, for how long a period it was available, or the questions it posed, and some of us may be left wondering why a volume published under the banner of the Modern Language Association’s “Approaches to Teaching World Literature” series did not try harder to extend its reach.' (Introduction)