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Item Ethical Dilemma in Coetzee’s Disgrace and Gordmier’s The House Gun(Department of English, 2022) Rijal, Min PrasadThis study examines the ethical and humanistic aspects in the two post-apartheid novels of South Africa Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer. Each text presents the traumatic experience of African black and white under the racism along with their struggle towards the redemption. The rapist Lurie and murderer Duncan are male protagonists of these novels, is built on embodied acts of sexual and racial violence stranded on the legacy of ethics and humanistic concern raising the ethical dilemma. Lucy in Digrace and Karl Jespersen in The House Gun represent the South Africa’s atrocities of white and black. The promotion of revengeful action raises the question in human rights. In terms of the lens of human rights and ethics Lucy forgives the black and Motsamai who advocates on white guilt-Duncan murder case shows failing to promotion human rights arouses ethical concern. The spotlight in these ethical dilemma testimonies is on the collective memory of the victims maintaining relationship between and among narration, subjectivity of the black and white violence. The research draws on Emanuel Levinas concept of social moralist of contemporary thought and Lynn Hunt theory of truly equal in rights. This study aims at exploring on the humanistic and ethical engagement for balancing both victims and sufferer without condemning them and their ethics being inflicted with the humanistic perspective. The finding of this study is that transitional society gives rise to ethical dilemma and subsequently cripples the promotion of human rights.Item Traumatic Experience in J. M. Coetzee's Youth(Department of English, 2008) Shrestha, SumanThe present dissertation on Youth by J.M. Coetzee attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experience of the characters in 1950s triggered by the violence of colonization, resistance over indirect colonization in the postcolonial era. Coetzee, here, shows the dejected life of the protagonist as an exile in London. The protagonist's delirium caused by the gaps and disruptions of history conflates with the racial violence and the protest of Blacks. The violence and his exile force the character to experience the historical trauma. The traces of colonial mentality and the burden of communal guilt increase the pressure of trauma, he experiences.