Post-apartheid Resistance In Coetzees Disgrace Racial Complexities In Focus

In this thesis I examine the post-apartheid resistance to the black’s empowerment in Coetzee’srnDisgrace. Accordingly, as a hypothesis of the study, I argue that in Disgrace the author throughrnthe white characters resist the post-apartheid black’s system of governances in the pretext of falserncompliance. As a possible background to the study, apartheid system is discussed. Then, for thernpurpose of showing the gap of the study, related studies that were carried out on the novel arernreviewed. Consequently, from scholars points of view, resistance, racism and related subjects arernalso discussed in such a way that they confer an unblemished impression of the subject underrnconsideration.rnSubsequently, the manifestation of post-apartheid resistance in the novel under the study isrnanalyzed. The portrayal of issues such as racism, the author’s perception of the black race, thernimage of the post-apartheid South Africa, the new political system, and the social interactionrnamong black and white characters, through which the resistance is reflected, are the majorrnconcerns that I critically examine in the course of the study. Upon the analysis of these points thernthesis proves as the author through his characters reflects his resistance to the newsystem ofrnblack’s authority. As a final point, I conclude that racism is the basis of the resistance in thernnovel.

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