In order to keep this position, Coetzee employs post-colonial discourse and disconstructs male subjectivity from following three aspects: First, western civilized system is represented by cruelty.

• 库切的去中心化写作在其作品中直接表现为对后殖民话语的批判和对强大的男性主体性的解构：西方文明制度被库切再现为野蛮酷刑；