Disgrace is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as the “embarrassment and the loss of people’s respect, or the behaviour that causes someone to be a disgrace as well as to be a disgrace to something or someone.” Disgrace is also a verb and is defined...
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee takes place in South Africa where a system of racial segregation was still present. Disgrace, in taking place after the end of apartheid gives the reader a little information on the undertones within the book. Nevertheless, the novel provides a...
Becoming Animal In European thinking, the opposition between culture and nature is given by the existence of two different species: the animal, depicted as a thing, instead of being and the human, who is the only one who can manage the privilege of existence throughout...
In this paper, I will explore the complexities in identity and its effects on the characters in Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus using the lens of postcolonial approach. The concept of identity is complex and...