J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. A Realistic Criticism of 'New' South-Africa?

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature grade: 10 LMU Munich (Englische Philologie) course: Proseminar Postcolonial Literature language: English abstract: Ever since its publication in 1999 J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel Disgrace has stirred up a lot of controversy. Its negative depiction of blacks has been seen as an endorsement of white racist stereotypes. In this essay I first analyze the degree of realism in Disgrace. Second I assess how Disgrace can be read as a criticism of New South Africa a decade after the dismantling of the Apartheid system