Preparation
Please read my paper on literatures of migration/exile: Pleßke, Nora. The Centre of Transit(ion) Postcolonial London in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life (2001) and J.M. Coetzee’s Youth (2002), 2009.
Please read any of the intoductory chapters on J.M. Coetzee's work: Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee. Cambridge UP, 2009.