Abstract
Shifting the Voice: Postcolonial Feminism in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and in the Heart of the Country
Highlights
The truth in Coetzee’s works lies in their equivocalness. These ambivalences are central to Coetzee as a person and to his writings as he is endorsed inside a risky postcolonial conflict, between the white colonizer and the local African, showing class division
Coetzee's In the Heart of International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 6(1)-2021 the Country conceptualizes the farm as a patriarchal space ruled over by a domineering patriarchal figure represented in Magda's callous father who breaks the family code by bringing a black bride to the farmhouse and having an affair with his servant's wife
From the perspective of feminism and within the scope of post-apartheid South Africa, this paper attempts to investigate the traditional pastoral issues and their negative effects on women, which are still detectable in post-apartheid South Africa
Summary
The truth in Coetzee’s works lies in their equivocalness These ambivalences are central to Coetzee as a person and to his writings as he is endorsed inside a risky postcolonial conflict, between the white colonizer and the local African, showing class division. He addresses the postmodern concerns through his writings, selfreflexivity, open-ended novels and dubious storytellers. His novels and printed literary works have been obviously motivated by his ideological inclinations and circumstances, as well as his narrators that have deliberately been found in a dichotomous domain between. The black feudal lord's hegemony emerges as an alternative to the white patriarchy, after the declaration of the postapartheid South Africa
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