논문은 어거스트 윌슨(August Wilson)의 연극에 나타난 기독교와 아프리카 전통 종교 사이의 긴장과 아프리카계 미국인의 정체성에 대한 작가의 비전과 의미를 탐구한다. 어거스트 윌슨은 아프리카계 미국인 공동체의 집단적 투쟁을 상징하기 위해 미국 사회가 흑인들에게 가한 억압에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 윌슨 의 작품에는 종교와 신의 문제에 대해 고민하고 씨름하는 인물들이 지속적으로 등장한다. 특히 두 작품 『피아노 레슨』과 『울타리』에서 기독교와 아프리카 전통 종교의 역할에 대한 이분법적 접근과 관련된 문제를 다루고 있다. 두 종교가 갖는 뚜렷한 이데올로기 사이에서 일어나는 갈등과 화해는 흑인들에게 교훈적 인 내용들로 가득 차 있다. 그가 극을 통해 보여주는 것은 흑인들에게 영적 세 계와의 관계를 포기하고 그들의 삶에서 보다 즉각적이고 보다 가시적인 특징에 대해 보다 건강한 인식을 함양하라는 요구다. 결과적으로, 본 논문은 윌슨의 연 극이 미국 흑인들의 삶에서 종교의 역할에 대한 현대적인 논평이 될 수 있음을 주장하고 있다.

This paper is to examine Gerhard Richter’s“ Atlas” as an artistic symbol of the memory archive with the theme of aporia which is one of the characteristics of the modern art.“ The Atlas” which is composed of 800 huge tafels reflects Richter’s perspective where we can recognize his psychological and work’s source. It is obtained through examining 10,000 pictures, and is also a unique document that shows the life of the artist. The contents of“ the Atlas” have been added and expanded continuously, which make it said to be finished, but it still remains as a non-complete work. According to Derrida, the desire for an archive is an illness that reaches for the death and is a part of the desire of finding and possessing the beginning or origin of everything. Derrida realized through the archive fever in“ Moses and Monotheism”, Freud’s desire of possessing the beginning of everything. This fever is to be seen in situations where death is urged. Therefore, the archive fever is a journey towards the death. The desire to make an archive comes from the inquiry of repeating something, and according to Freud, this desire for repetition can be seen as going towards death. When Derrida was studying Freud’s“ Moses and Monotheism”, he did not overlook Freud’ s archive fever. This has a connection to Richter’s archive fever in“ the Atlas”, reflected in the war and ideology due to the repetitive compulsion of trauma. Derrida said that the reason for Richter examining the same theme repetitively was the archive fever and is at the same time a movement towards the death. Consequently, trauma exists through the archive, and the archive continues through the trial of finding the beginning. Nothing can stop this except the death and that is why death is to be found at the end of the journey. This paper examines Richter’s memory archive in the three directions. First, I illustrate the repetitive compulsion shown in“ the Atlas” and resulted from trauma in an aporaic way to concentrate only on the archive, and examine the aporaic narrative of the author. Second, I examine the various methods of different modern artists to express their “after death memory” when they overcame their trauma. Finally, I examine the aporaic method that is illustrated through the process of fusing and transforming photographs, which shows the objective truth with art. In other words, I examine the method that is exposed between the photographic truth and artistic creation.