Essays about: "coetzee disgrace power"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words coetzee disgrace power.

  1. 1. Sexual Domination: Colonial Guilt and Postcolonial Hatred in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Janet Migoyan; [2021]
    Keywords : Collective guilt; gender; race; sexual oppression; post-apartheid; colonialism; postcolonialism;

    Abstract : J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace was published during a defining moment in South African history in 1999. Five years earlier Nelson Mandela had been elected president after the first general election. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mind or Body : Patriarchal binary thought and the role of sex in Disgrace

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Yrr Åslund; [2021]
    Keywords : Keywords: gender; sex; power; sexuality; race; Coetzee; Disgrace; Cixous; patriarchal binary thought.;

    Abstract : David Lurie, the main character in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, is a white middle-aged man who lives in South Africa. He is a South African man but seems to think of himself as a European man and the story plays out in a post-colonial setting. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Gender Perspective on the Possession of Power in J.M Coetzee's Disgrace : David and Petrus' usage of women

    University essay from Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Linda Pettersson; [2014]
    Keywords : Coetzee; Disgrace; gender; power; feminism; possession of power; apartheid; Coetzee; Disgrace; maktförhållanden; makt; könsperspektiv; genus; feminism;

    Abstract : This essay deals with sexual power abuse in J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace. The essay focuses on the two characters David and Petrus and their way of acting. READ MORE

  5. 4. Representation of the Other : A Postcolonial Study of the Representation of the Natives in Relation to the Colonizers in The Stranger and Disgrace

    University essay from Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Mirela Karagic; [2013]
    Keywords : The Stranger; Disgrace; Albert Camus; J.M. Coetzee; postcolonial theory; comparative literature;

    Abstract : According to postcolonial theory, postcolonial literature tends to depict non-Westerners – the native Other – as a homogenous mass, portrayed as carrying all the dark human traits. The Other is often represented as, for instance, being exotic, violent, hostile and mysterious, and either stands in opposition to, or is portrayed as being completely different from the Westerner. READ MORE

  6. 5. Rape and Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Linda Melkner Moser; [2012]
    Keywords : Rape; silence; sexual violence; South Africa; J.M. Coetzee; Disgrace; Melanie Isaacs; Lucy Lurie; David Lurie; sexual scripts; rape myths;

    Abstract : This essay discusses rape and silence in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, with focus on how and why the characters Melanie and Lucy are silenced after being raped. READ MORE