关键词: 库切, 身体政治, 女性主义, 后殖民

Abstract: J.M. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize of literature in 2003. His novels focus on colonial history and segregation in South Africa. Many are told from the perspective of female characters who have been depreciated to an inferior position. Racial and gender problems are studied by analyzing female body images to expose the close relations among the construction of colonial system, body injuries and construction of gender image. It is exposed that different power discourses such as politics, culture and gender ideology have disciplined and imprisoned female bodies. Body predicament rouses the selfcompassion consciousness of female subjectivity. Gender identity is constructed by such means as violence and eros to escape from the barrier of colonialism and gender repression.

Key words: J.M. Coetzee, body politics, feminism, postcolony