• K M Deepa
• Dr R Saravana Selvan

Abstract: Alienation has been one of the universally most debated predicaments of human existence. Very often the term alienation has been attributed to men as an existential issue, whereas women are considered as either the second sex or the weaker sex. There are writers who have discussed the existential issues of the women, even the black women, but debates or discussions on the existential predicaments and alienation of the white women are scarcely found in the literary arena. This paper attempts to throw light on the existential predicaments and the physical and emotional desolation of white women, who experience the sense of alienation caused due to colonisation in different ages of South Africa. This article is an attempt to study the physical and emotional desolation of women in J M Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country.

Alienation, Desolation, Oppression, Colonisation, Patriarchy, Estrangement, Seclusion, Imperialism.

"THE SENSE OF ALIENATION: PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL DESOLATION OF WOMEN IN J M COETZEE’S IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.592-594, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907227.pdf

"THE SENSE OF ALIENATION: PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL DESOLATION OF WOMEN IN J M COETZEE’S IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp592-594, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907227.pdf