![]() ![]() This masterclass will focus on sex, race, and power in Disgrace, looking in particular at the symmetry between the two rapes – one committed by David Lurie, a conservative white Professor of Romantic Literature, the other a gang rape inflicted on his daughter Lucy. Today, in our deeply polarised times, the novel continues to provoke and disturb its readers, resonating eerily with the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. While the African National Congress denounced Disgrace as racist for depicting the gang rape of a white woman, white South Africans were shocked by what they saw as the novel’s bleak vision of their post-apartheid future. ![]() Many say that the reclusive author left for Australia because of the controversy surrounding Disgrace (1999), a work which won the Booker Prize but which pleased very few in his native South Africa. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Coetzee now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. ![]() Twice winner of the Booker Prize, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. Coetzee is regarded as one of the world’s most brilliant writers. ![]()
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