The Fluctuating Role of Male Homosocial Desire in Coetzee's Disgrace
Abstract
This paper explores the homosocial relationships and associations that the major character of the novel 'Disgrace', David Lurie has had with his male encountered people around him. David Lurie experiencing divorce twice is a fifty two year old university professor who has lost all his connections with both interior and exterior world. He has accustomed to take advantage of the prostitutes and other females in order to gratify his sexual desire which the climax one was the sex with his student that headed him to be fired from university. He has not got any profound dealing with any male person who makes him to be perplexed facing the ones who call him as a friend or close person to get advice. I will endeavor to indicate his bonds with his colleagues in trail, the most significant one with Melanie's boyfriend Ryan who all three together_ Melanie, David Lurie and Ryan_ constructs a triangle love in urban setting, Melanie's Father (the seduced student girl) Mr. Isaac, Bill Shaw who calls Lurie his friend and Petrus who works for his daughter in the rural setting. In order to achieve to this goal I am to apply American prestigious author and academic scholar in the field of Sociology and gender studies Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Book 'Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire' (1985) who popularized the Homosociality in the Globe by publishing this book and her methods in determining the relations' influences and importance on the protagonist specially the love triangle which for the first time was introduced in sociology and literature by her.