비앙카 마레의 『가사를 모르면 흥얼거려』: 소웨토를 증언하는 사후기억
Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know The Words: The Postmemory and Testimony of Soweto
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This paper aims explores the ethical significance of post-memory in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, which deals with the Soweto uprising in the Republic of South Africa in 1976. This book’s author was a white female and did not experience the segregation of the Apartheid but grew up with a cultural memory of the uprising, including the images, narratives, and various memorials of the Apartheid. To investigate this novel, this current study paralleled cultural memory with post-memory theory. The narrative of the novel is told by alternating perspectives rather than assigning a single authoritative voice. This literary technique reveals that life for black and white people under the Apartheid policy was completely different. : A white girl, Robin Conrad, lives a comfortable life with her parents in Johannesburg, while a middle-aged black woman, Beauty Mbali, strives to bring up children in the Bantu homeland. After the Soweto uprising, the two of them become a pseudo-family and form a bond beyond race. From Robin’s journey, readers are offered the opportunity to realize that we are ill-informed or biased about racism, homophobia, and all forms of prejudice.
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This paper aims explores the ethical significance of post-memory in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, which deals with the Soweto uprising in the Republic of South Africa in 1976. This book’s author was a white female and did not experience the segregation of the Apartheid but grew up with a cultural memory of the uprising, including the images, narratives, and various memorials of the Apartheid. To investigate this novel, this current study paralleled cultural memory with post-memory theory. The narrative of the novel is told by alternating perspectives rather than assigning a single authoritative voice. This literary technique reveals that life for black and white people under the Apartheid policy was completely different. : A white girl, Robin Conrad, lives a comfortable life with her parents in Johannesburg, while a middle-aged black woman, Beauty Mbali, strives to bring up children in the Bantu homeland. After the Soweto uprising, the two of them become a pseudo-family and form a bond beyond race. From Robin’s journey, readers are offered the opportunity to realize that we are ill-informed or biased about racism, homophobia, and all forms of prejudice.
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