Abstract In Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer examines whites and blacks, the multiple voices from races and political parties and anti-apartheid groups, the political and the personal struggle for individual will, the symbolic and semiotic, and the relationship of self to conscience and social position under the apartheid system in South Africa through the heroine, Rosa Burger's narrative in the novel. Gordimer presents the opposition between the personal and political self-realization through revolutionary commitments by Rosa's struggle for individual will. This novel seems personal about rebellion against family as well as the government, and through Rosa Burger's explorations of ways of living, it undertakes to bring together the truth of the body and the senses with the demands of the mind and moral consciousness about black movement in South Africa. In my thesis, I will first discuss the historical background of apartheid system in South Africa and present both the white racists' and white liberals' complicity of oppression on the blacks. Kristeva's argument of "mobility of the semiotic" elaborates how Rosa Burger reconstructs her self-identity from the symbolic to the semiotic in her journey to Europe. Foucault's concept of "heterotopias" justifies the black people's place as the place of resistance in the revolution. As the novel's epigraph "I am the place in which something occurred"─Rosa Burger is one such place: South Africa, as well as Gordimer's text─are sites for/of political and personal, public and private that entail taking responsibility for the blacks' suffering in the long run. By inscribing Rosa's monologue about the values of herself as a white, Gordimer's Burger's Daughter evokes a historical situation in which the personal cannot separate from such other realities like the black African struggle and suffering in the country.