南非作家J.M.库切因获得2003年诺贝尔文学而一举成名。其作品也揭开了人类多种文明间相互冲突的疮疤。本文通过分析库切小说《耻》中代表人物——白人和黑人的举止言行,说明在殖民者失去种族歧视权、失去统治权的社会里,白人对生活的失望和迷茫。殖民主义者在给被殖民主义者造成损害的同时,也害了自己,致使其后代来为其过去的罪恶而赎罪。而黑人被殖民者本身所表现的行为是受白人殖民统治者种族压迫多年的本能的反映。最后得出结论:种族隔离时代的巨大伤痛,无论是白人还是黑人都不会淡忘,更不会忘却,给南非留下了难以抹去的历史疮疤。 South African writer J.M.Cutchel fame in 2003 won the Nobel literature. His work also uncovered the scabs of conflicting human civilizations. This article analyzes the disappointment and confusion of white people in life in the society where the colonizers lost their right to race discrimination and lost their dominance by analyzing the deeds and deeds of white and black people, the representative figures in “Shame” by Coetzee. While the colonialists have done harm to the colonialists, they have also harmed themselves and caused their descendants to make atonement for their past sins. The behavior of Negroes as a manifestation of the colonizers themselves is a reflection of instinct that has been racially oppressed by the white colonial rulers for many years. In the end, I came to the conclusion that the huge pain of apartheid era, neither white nor black, will not forget, let alone forget, leaving South Africa an indelible history of scars.