Post-apartheid Resistance in Coetzee’s Disgrace: Racial Complexities in Focus
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
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In this thesis I examine the post-apartheid resistance to the black’s empowerment in Coetzee’s
Disgrace. Accordingly, as a hypothesis of the study, I argue that in Disgrace the author through
the white characters resist the post-apartheid black’s system of governances in the pretext of false
compliance. As a possible background to the study, apartheid system is discussed. Then, for the
purpose of showing the gap of the study, related studies that were carried out on the novel are
reviewed. Consequently, from scholars points of view, resistance, racism and related subjects are
also discussed in such a way that they confer an unblemished impression of the subject under
consideration.
Subsequently, the manifestation of post-apartheid resistance in the novel under the study is
analyzed. The portrayal of issues such as racism, the author’s perception of the black race, the
image of the post-apartheid South Africa, the new political system, and the social interaction
among black and white characters, through which the resistance is reflected, are the major
concerns that I critically examine in the course of the study. Upon the analysis of these points the
thesis proves as the author through his characters reflects his resistance to the newsystem of
black’s authority. As a final point, I conclude that racism is the basis of the resistance in the
novel.
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Coetzee’s Disgrace: Racial Complexities in Focus