Comparing Disgrace to Post-Colonialism

Reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, I found no type of comparison to post-colonialism. I found that the first six chapters of this novel has to do with more the roles men and women play. The novel goes into how David Lurie becomes obsessed with one of the students from his Romantics course, Melanie Isaacs, and they have sex more than one time. The novel states that Lurie’s sexual acts represent rape. “A memory floods back: the moment on the floor when he forced the sweater up and exposed her neat, perfect little breasts” (Chapter 3). In a way I might be wrong and this might be a comparison to post-colonialism. I feel we are still at the very beginning to discuss the fact if the novel deals with, or can be compared to post-colonialism. Lurie is the type of man who is unable to resist having affairs with his female students. The fact that he sees Melanie as a little girl and as his student excites him, which is very disgusting. After I disagreed I might also think that this novel might deal with post-colonialism, because the story does take place in South Africa, and it is dealing with the citizens of this country. Also the story of supposedly rape happening is something that does happen in this country often. As I stated before we might be able to compare bits and pieces of the story to post-colonialism, but I feel that this whole novel doesn’t talk all about this subject matter