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- 자료유형
- 학술저널
- 저자정보
- 발행연도
- 2026.3
- 수록면
- 139 - 157 (19page)
- DOI
- 10.29324/jewcl.2026.3.75.139
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This study examines the representation of female alienation and the possibility of solidarity in The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, situating the play within the socio-historical context of South Africa while extending its implications beyond a purely racial framework. Moving beyond Fugard’s earlier township plays, which focused primarily on racial segregation, this study argues that his middle-period work deepens the inquiry into discrimination by exploring the interiorized and relational dimensions of exclusion. Drawing on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of “objective violence,” Walter Benjamin’s concept of law-preserving violence, Amartya Sen’s critique of singular identity and exclusionary belonging, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s formulation of the subaltern’s inaudible voice, this study analyzes how institutional racism, patriarchy, and religious authority intersect to regulate women’s lives under the guise of normality. Focusing on Helen and Elsa, this study contends that their shared despair is not merely personal misfortune but exposure to structural and symbolic violence. Their dialogue and mutual trust create a space in which female subjectivity can be reclaimed. At the same time, the offstage presence of figures such as Katrina and Patience foregrounds the limits of representation and recalls the structurally silenced subaltern woman.
Solidarity in the play thus exceeds sentimental comfort; it functions as a strategic and ethical practice that enables women to confront violence and recover agency across generational, racial, and class boundaries. Ultimately, The Road to Mecca dramatizes how desperate women, bound by layered and unstable identities, may resist isolation through identification and trust. By staging alienation alongside the fragile yet transformative power of solidarity, Fugard bears witness to marginalized lives and gestures toward the enduring possibility of collective agency within oppressive structures.
Solidarity in the play thus exceeds sentimental comfort; it functions as a strategic and ethical practice that enables women to confront violence and recover agency across generational, racial, and class boundaries. Ultimately, The Road to Mecca dramatizes how desperate women, bound by layered and unstable identities, may resist isolation through identification and trust. By staging alienation alongside the fragile yet transformative power of solidarity, Fugard bears witness to marginalized lives and gestures toward the enduring possibility of collective agency within oppressive structures.
#The Road to Mecca
#Violence
#Female Solidarity
#Subalternity
#Intersectional Identity
#『메카로 가는 길』
#폭력
#여성 소외
#서발터니티
#다층적 정체성
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- ABSTRACT
- Ⅰ. 들어가며
- Ⅱ. 폭력의 질서는 어떻게 유지되는가
- Ⅲ. ‘절망하는 여성들’이 지닌 다층적 정체성의 외부와 내부
- Ⅳ. 소외를 내파하는 연대의 가능성
- Ⅴ. 나가며
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