Disgrace

"It’s a confusion the novelist seems to encourage (Donadio)." The confusion is whether is readers can separate the novel from the writer. I will disagree that the novel is racist. Disgrace the whole story is one-sided. It would not make sense to really flush out the other characters in the novel, even the black assailants. For Bhabha, “Disgrace” is so powerful because it “allows people to project onto it some of their own most heartfelt but violent feelings (Donadio).” Coetzee never really makes an issue on the color of the skin and first time I picked on some kind of racial tension was when Lucy was talking to her father about her rape. Lucy was confounded to why they would so such a thing to her. David replied that it was the hatred that was growing in the African community against the their white oppressors. David was not bothered that Petrus was African but was worried that he was scheming for his daughter's land. David feared for his safety. Both parties trying dealing the isolation, trauma and the scars of what happened that day of the attack. David dealing with a world that he did not feel connected. Lucy trying to reconnect with the world she got disconnected from. What I think is interesting was how Coetzee uses the word "disgrace". He uses the word throughout the novel. David's leaving college, "his disgrace". Know his daughter's secret he also calls a "secret disgrace". Is the downfall of this man a representation of the downfall of the white upper classes?