Melanie as a Subaltern Woman: An Analysis of JM Coetzee's Disgrace

This article reports how Melanie was subaltern character in the novel Disgrace written by J M Coetzee. As a literary qualitative research, this paper utilized theory developed Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to analyze lived experiences of injustices exploitation over her. The findings study revealed that as woman; victimized suppressed from racial, gender other various layers injustices. Likewise, she belonged minority Muslim community and, due which had face tremendous Although an educated university student, many times raped her own professor; consequently, tortured with psychological pain very often faced family conflicts indeed. result patriarchal ideology, remained silence further became submissive docile character. However, exhibited after being exploited for long; consciousness about her; thereby, rejected such forwarding case against professor university. have overarching consequences will contribute explore issues novel.