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Zaire Krieger insists that since she shares the same racialgroup as Amanda Gorman, she is better positionedthan Marieke Lucas Rijneveld to understandAmanda Gorman’s social situation, andto that extent, interpret her poem,which is a reflection of the poet’ssocial condition. In other words, ZaireBob Marley famouslysays,Krieger believes that although the threewomen share the same gender groupRijneveld’s racial group as white does notonly give her latent advantages and privilegesover her black counterparts; as a white, itequally makes it difficult for Rijneveld to graspGorman’s world. Those latent and unwrittenadvantages and benefits make it near-impossible forRijneveld to fully understand (and perhaps, appreciate)the black experience. While some critics might accuseZaire Krieger of exhibiting the “psychology of race” withher argument, it is difficult to dismiss such an intenseargument with a wave of a hand.One can hardly deny that having first-hand knowledgeexperience of a situation might not be the same asthat of someone who imagines or understands thesame experience. In as much as one sharesKrieger’s argument, it equally raises numerousquestions. Does one have to belong tothe same group (for example, race) ofa victim to understand the social challengesand experience of the victim fully? Can’t awhite person understand or feel the segregationof the minorities? What qualifies one as a socialcritic? Would one’s race, as, for example, a white antiapartheidcampaigner, be a barrier against sharing thesame social mind as black minorities? Whatever one’stake maybe, the one thing is sure: we arefragmented on different levels and groups.That fragmentation of individuals leads us toanother question.“Who feelsit knowsit.”Is one’sexpertise in a given field of study limited to works relatedto their social group?In other words, can, for example, aliterary critic from a particular socialbackground interpret an academicassignment written by someone fromanother social group? As much as onemight share Zaire Krieger’s argumentthat Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is not closeto Amanda Gorman in both origin andgenre, some might insist that Rijneveld,by way of professionalism, is qualified totranslate Amanda Gorman’s poem “TheHill We Climb.”Professor of Modern Dutch LiteratureThomas Vaessens sees a differentproblem in choosing Rijneveld.“Rijneveld is an author and poet,but not a translator. And that isfundamentally different, arguesVaessens. “A translator has totranslate the meaning of theoriginal text,” he explains. “Youcan be such a good writer, butyou have to get into the textwhen translating to realise allthe meanings there are. That is aspecial profession”.If Krieger was chosen based solely onher profession as a translator, thatdecision is understandable, as it justifiesVaessens’ argument above. But was22that so? The idea for choosing Kriegerover Rijneveld was because the formeris “closer to the Gorman, in bothorigin and genre.” How does thatchoice support Krieger’s criticism ofMeulenhoff’s selection, which Kriegercompares to a film she saw in which anAmerican actor played a Dutchman?“Then you hear Dutch, and youthink, why is he doing that? Andthat’s exactly what I felt. That doesnot mean that a good actor didnot play the role, but you couldalso have chosen a Dutchman.That’s a feeling that a lot of whiteDutch people don’t understand,but maybe a little more when I tellit like that.”As strong as the above argument mightbe, it raises another thought-provokingquestion: Can a literary critic from aparticular social background interpretan academic work written by someonefrom another social group?We have many academic authoritiesin different fields of study fromdifferent social, racial, and geographicalbackgrounds. Many white academicsare experts in black literary works and2021 | Issue 8 Vol 30 | Kata Kata cartoon magazinevice versa. Likewise, you haveAfricans, Asians, and Europeanswho specialise in different genres,including black American literature.Must these specialists share thesame racial, gender, geographicalties with their field of study to beaccepted as experts in their variousfields? I strongly doubt that idea.Even though we are the same,human beings are not the alliedforce of nature; we are at themercy of inevitable fragmentation.In the process of healing the woundof segregation, discrimination,injustice and inequality, we often,ironically, bruise those same socialdiseases.While trying to interpret AmandaGorman’s poem “The Hill WeClimb,” and build a fair andegalitarian society, we may have,instead, exposed human psychologyand the dichotomy in our race,gender, class, social hierarchy,which ironically, are the same verythorny issues “The Hill We Climb”tries to expose and address. Younow understand better the hillAmanda Gorman climbs.
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