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    Posted: 12-Mar-2006 at 19:21

i have to write a 4  page paper on how the book "disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee is about the change from apartheid to freedom in south africa.

the book does not even talk about ti! infact, blacks are hardly talked about!

any help?

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its funny, we just covered the Apartheid government and South African culture in one of my classes. You should look into protest music by Africans, especially Gumboots dancing. 
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It's about highlighting the obsurdities of the difference between black and white culture.

I thought the author was trying to say black and white culture was incompatible.

In the almost puritanical realms of a white Disneyland seemingly oblivious to both what south africa is and the outside world. A seperated professor sleeps consentually with a 21 year old student and is driven out of town by outraged morality viewing him practically a rapist.

He goes to the black countryside and sees rape and violence ignored as if it's not even wrong. But also he's sees a younger generation of white south africans able to find this tolerable. On top of this he sees a few wise blacks able to learn the game and become plantation owners and exploiters the way the whites were before.

For me he seems to be saying the aging whites are going to continue living in a world akin the movie Pleasantville becoming more and more irrelevant and extinct. A few blacks are going to take the reins of power leaving the rest in the same state as before, younger whites are going to assimulate with the new black ruling class.



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