This study examined Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter through the critical framework of Ruth Robbins’s Marxist-Feminist theory, with the aim of exploring how gender, class, and political struggle intersect within the South African apartheid context. The analysis focused on Rosa Burger’s role as both a political inheritor and a woman navigating patriarchal constraints, emphasizing the double burden she carried as a daughter of revolution and as a female subject. The findings revealed that domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor often marginalized or rendered invisible played a crucial role in sustaining revolutionary activism. By foregrounding Rosa’s caregiving and symbolic acts of resistance, the study argued that such feminized labor must be recognized as a vital component of political struggle. The narrative techniques employed by Gordimer, including fragmentation and silence, were shown to encode ideological tensions and to mirror Rosa’s fractured identity. The study concluded that Burger’s Daughter not only critiques apartheid but also redefines revolutionary practice by highlighting the invisible contributions of women. This research contributes to Gordimer studies by integrating Marxist and feminist readings in a holistic way, moving beyond isolated approaches that privilege either class or gender. The study underscores the importance of Robbins’s framework in rethinking both literary criticism and socio-political theory, suggesting that true liberation requires an acknowledgment of women’s symbolic and material roles in shaping history.
