Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… that Lurie both inflicts and experiences, including his ‘disgrace’ at the beginning of the novel before exploring … themes one would expect from a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, from racial discrimination to … is the way in which Coetzee explores these themes through his white protagonist, David Lurie, and the suffering he …