'This essay approaches the rape of Lucy and the simultaneous massacre of her dogs in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace from three perspectives. First, the plot reveals the collusion between sexism and speciesism. Second, in the context of South-African colonialism, the rape of a white woman and the massacre of "colonial dogs" by blacks are acts of revenge in reaction to colonial history. Third, Coetzee’s animal ethics finds full expression in his choice of such "incriminating terms" as massacre and L?sen when narrating the killing of dogs.'
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'J.M. Coetzee has created a number of insulted or damaged characters in his novels. Through the prism of Spivak’s post-colonial theory, it is not difficult to find that the resistance and silence hidden behind these characters are highly compatible with Spivak’s discussion of the subaltern. Further analysis shows that Coetzee has endowed these silent subalterns with unusual significance: they are not only a silent declaration of existence, but also powerful agents to deconstruct the empire and resist cognitive violence. Significantly and illuminatingly, Coetzee uses literature to break the dictatorship of historical writing and to reproduce the richness and variety of marginalized cultures.'
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'A History of Australian Literary Criticism by Professor Wang Labao is a substantial monograph written in Chinese from historical, contemporary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Systematic and voluminous, this academic work focuses on the history of Australian literary criticism. Its publication marks a great achievement in the field of Australian literary criticism, providing invaluable references for both students and scholars of Australian literature in China.'
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