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A Study of Racism and Colonialism in J. M. Coetzee’s Life at the time of Michael K

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J. M. Coetzee is considered to be the most influential writer of his generation. His writings introduced readers throughout the world to the creative use of language and form of modern African life and history. The novel The Life and Times of Michael K, published in 1983. For this excellent novel he got the Booker Prize in 1983 that reflects and explores public concern over the future course of South Africa. The purpose of the present research paper is to analyze of racism and colonialism in his booker winning prize novel The Life and Time of Michael K. In this regard, the study deals with the aftermaths and repercussions of racial partiality and separation that affected the lives of people in South Africa. The novel depicts apartheid racial and colonial clashes towards the native people of South Africa. It is one of the most brutally and violently exploited regions. The Black are doomed to live in slums in terrible conditions while the white lived in the most modern areas and conditions. While Africans grapple with poverty, hunger, unemployment, diseases, minority the white are preoccupied with their idea of colonialism. Coetzee’s novel then ironically undermines this union by portraying an anti-hero whose purpose is to oppose all forms of social ties and political affiliations. This does not make the novel apolitical: its setting very clearly highlights the racial and colonial unrest of South Africa.

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Racism, Colonialism, Apartheid, unemployment, Political allegory

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"A Study of Racism and Colonialism in J. M. Coetzee’s Life at the time of Michael K", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.19-25, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211636.pdf

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"A Study of Racism and Colonialism in J. M. Coetzee’s Life at the time of Michael K", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. pp19-25, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211636.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR2211636
Registration ID: 505852
Published In: Volume 9 | Issue 11 | Year November-2022
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Page No: 19-25
Country: -, -, India .
Area: Engineering
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
Publisher: IJ Publication


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