J.M. Coetzee`S Disgrace And Racism In Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Postcolonial Analysis

Introduction to the Book'JM Coetzee`s Disgrace and Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa' is a short, comprehensive, and critical study of 'Disgrace', a novel by J. M. Coetzee, which won him Booker Prize. The subject of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, as explored by Coetzee in his novel, Disgrace, undoubtedly demands a separate study of its own. Nevertheless, due to the dearth of such material, graduate and undergraduate students find it hard to lay hands on study material, which comprehensively and in a critical manner touches upon the theme of the double-blind of racism in the novel of Coetzee. The author felt the urgency for a book that would deal with the subject of racism in Disgrace, and borne out of that effort is the well-researched, comprehensive and short-book called, 'JM Coetzee`s Disgrace and Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa.' It is hoped that the book will be of great help to the students dealing with the novel of J. M. Coetzee, especially Disgrace.In the novel, it is David Lurie and her daughter who suffer at the hands of blacks. However, it is David Lurie again who ravishes her black student Melaine Isaacs. The novel abounds in such instances where the tormentor is tormented, the discriminator is discriminated, and violence is met with double-violence. Is it 'double-blind of racism' where blacks and whites lock horns and go head to head against each other, neither of the party a winner nor the loser, on the battlefield of racism? To find the answer to such questions, go through the book and you will get it.About the AuthorShafqat Mushtaq holds masters in English Literature from the University of Kashmir. He is the author of Blossoms from Elsewhere, Defy Odds and Be Unstoppable, Modernism in TS Eliot`s The Wasteland, and is published frequently in leading English dailies of Kashmir.

• | Author: Shafqat Mushtaq
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Jun 26, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 154 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1076302505
• | ISBN-13: 9781076302502