AustLit

'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.'

Source: CAOD database.