• Severine Pinto
• Dr A Lourdusamy

Purpose: South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is less than fully human literature, unnaturally preoccupied with power and the crookedness of power, unable to move from elementary relations of contestation, domination, and subjugation to the vast and complex human world that lies beyond them. This paper holds a realistic though gloomy narrative of human condition. It is the scene of the individuals struggling for survival amidst existential and social forces in post- apartheid culture. Apartheid represented the era of victimization and pathological attachments. It distorted intersubjective relations, turned human interactions into power struggles and produced deformed, stunted subjects. This paper analyses that Coetzee’s works stage the tendency of the humanizing discourses to produce gendered and racialized subaltern bodies. The novels also dramatize the resistance of the subalterns to the epistemic violence of these narratives, resulting in the eventual failure of the intellectual to grant voice to them. Design/Methodology/Approach: The researcher has studied research articles, books, authored by J.M.Coetzee. Also, peer reviewed journals, original research papers, National and International Publications. The researcher has referred and followed APA Manuel for the analyses of the research paper. Findings/Result: The apartheid era represented victimization, subjugation and pathological attachments. It has distorted intersubjective relations, turned human interactions into power struggles and produced deformed, stunted subjects. Originality/Value: This paper examines the residual presence of character deformity and pathological intersubjectivity- a social reality that diminishes the prospect of the promised sane society of post-apartheid era. Paper Type: It’s analytical research.

subjugation, Compliance, Abidance, residual

"Subjugation and Compliance abidance in Select Novels of J.M.Coetzee", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no.f147-f152, January-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201525.pdf

"Subjugation and Compliance abidance in Select Novels of J.M.Coetzee", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no. ppf147-f152, January-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201525.pdf