Melanie as a Subaltern Woman: An Analysis of JM Coetzee's Disgrace

The Batuk Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI:10.3126/batuk.v8i2.47015
S. Ghimire
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This article reports how Melanie was subaltern character in the novel Disgrace written by J M Coetzee. As a literary qualitative research, this paper utilized subaltern theory developed by Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to analyze lived experiences of injustices and exploitation over her. The findings of this study revealed that Melanie as a subaltern woman; victimized and suppressed from racial, gender and other various layers of injustices. Likewise, she belonged to minority Muslim community and, due to which she had to face tremendous injustices. Although she was an educated university student, was many times raped by her own professor; consequently, she was tortured with psychological pain and very often faced family conflicts indeed. As a result of patriarchal ideology, she remained silence and further became submissive and docile character. However, the findings further exhibited that after being exploited for long; she developed consciousness about the injustices over her; thereby, she rejected such injustices by forwarding the case against her own professor to the university. The findings have overarching consequences which will contribute to explore further issues of subaltern in the novel.
作为一个下等女性的梅兰妮:对库切的《耻辱》的分析
本文报道了J·M·库切的小说《耻辱》中梅兰妮的下层角色。作为一种文学定性研究,本文运用了Ranajit Guha和Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak的次等理论来分析她的不公正和剥削的生活经历。本研究结果表明,梅兰妮作为一个次等女性;受到种族、性别和其他各种不公正待遇的迫害和压制。同样,她属于少数民族穆斯林社区,因此她不得不面对巨大的不公正。虽然她是一名受过良好教育的大学生,却多次被自己的教授强奸;因此,她受到心理痛苦的折磨,而且经常面临家庭冲突。在男权意识形态的影响下,她保持沉默,进一步形成了顺从、温顺的性格。然而,研究结果进一步表明,经过长时间的开发;她逐渐意识到自己受到的不公正待遇;因此,她拒绝这种不公正,将针对她自己的教授的案件转交给了大学。这些发现具有重要的意义,将有助于进一步探讨小说中的次等问题。
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