폭력의 폭로: 샘 홀크로프트와 월레 소잉카 작품으로 본 르포로서의 문학 = Exposure in Violence: Literature as Reportage in Sam Holcroft and Wole Soyinka’s Play.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The plays of Sam Holcroft, a playwright who addresses contemporary social issues, and Wole Soyinka, whose works satirize the political realities of Africa, clearly demonstrate that literature can function as a form of reportage that exposes reality. Although the two writers, from Britain and Nigeria respectively, come from different racial and cultural backgrounds, they share a common concern in revealing how violence permeates everyday life. Cockroach portrays the anxiety, fear, and confusion of a school community and its teenage students confronted with war, while Alapata Apata satirizes human desire and the intersections of power surrounding valuable minerals. In this way, both works effectively present perspectives of social satire and social criticism through the forms of literature. The fictional dimension embedded in literary texts can lessen the discomfort of readers who are faced with violent realities. The everyday violence summoned through the characters is powerfully reconstructed within the literary form. This reconstructed violence is rendered more objective through the medium of literature and then conveyed to the readers. Therefore, literature faithfully fulfills the role of reportage as effective media through which violence can be exposed.