I'm in the process of outlining the syllabus for the Commonwealth Lit course (a title I'm finding less and less satisfactory as I prep the course--I wonder how long it's been in the books this way?). Anyway, I'm trying to think of a secondary reading that would pair nicely with Coetzee's Disgrace, something that gets at not just the challenge to, but the displacement of whiteness, or perhaps something that hints at the ideas of "after postcolonialism." I'm drawing a blank.
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I don't know about lit off the top of my head but I just was going back through my copy of Richard Dyer's _White_ and remembering again how great it is (but nonfiction alas) ... it has a chapter on the miniseries _The Last of England_?
I suppose another Coetze book isn't what you're looking for. Would Zadie Smith's _White Teeth_ work here?
-Christy
Oh...When I say Secondary Reading, I mean criticism or theory--I do already have Zadie Smith on the syllabus--immediately following Coetzee, in fact.
Oops, my bad! Didn't read closely. Then the Dyer might work! I also really loved _Imperial Leather_ --- McClintock? Maybe? I'm across the room from the bookshelf. Imperial Leather won't have much "whiteness" stuff though.
How bout some classics, like _Black Skin White Masks_? Or Kobena Mercer?
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