"Amnesty"中文摘要:

故事透過一位未婚妻子講述其對因為遭受政治迫害入獄之愛人的等待。敘事者身為一位農場的教師，與一位熱衷於政治活動的男子相愛，並在愛人被判行時便懷有一女，後取名為Inkululeko。其愛人因從事政治活動被判行六年，其間敘事者與其愛人之父母有次存夠錢想去他被監禁的島上看他，卻因為忘了事先申請通行者而不得前往，之後其愛人之父亡佚，其愛人被關五年後獲釋，回到家鄉停留短暫的時間，且敘事者又再次懷有身孕，卻因其愛人對政治活動難以釋懷而又離鄉繼續奮鬥。透過故事，亦可得知敘事者對於其愛人從事政治的自我觀感與其對生活上一些纖細的思維。

問題

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"Amnesty":

1.  What do you think about her presentation of this female character in “Amnesty”?  Condescending?  False?  Or Sympathetic?

2.  Can we cross racial boundaries in writing and artistic creation?

3.  How much do we know, through the narrator, about her lover’s revolutionary ideas?  How is he related to the narrator and their families? 

4. What role does the narrator play in between an activist and her peasant family?   How much does she learn from her lover? 

5.  What does the ending mean (that she says she is ‘waiting to come back home’)?