南非著名作家约翰·迈克斯韦尔·库切凭借《耻》这部小说夺得2003年诺贝尔文学大奖。这部小说构思精巧、对话隽永、辨析清楚,生动而形象地刻画出在新旧交替的南非大地上,种族隔离政策被废除之后,殖民主义的日益衰弱。文章试图从文本中所体现的“后殖民语境”作为评论主线,通过小说主人公的情感、社会角色和财产三方面折射出的社会现实,探究在后种族隔离期 The famous South African writer John Maxwell Coetze won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “Shameless” novel. The novel is thought-out, meaningful, clear-cut, vivid and vividly portrayed on the land of South Africa, where old and new alternate, and the decolonization of colonialism after its apartheid policy was abolished. The article attempts to use the “postcolonial context” embodied in the text as the main line of criticism, and through the social reality reflected in the emotion, social role and property of the protagonist,