초국가적 읽기

• 영문명: A Transnational Reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이승은(Seungeun Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제14집 1호, 161~186쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

This paper aims at a transnational reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices, one of the highly acclaimed South Asian American novels. Divakaruni examines the transnationality of America by analyzing how America as a nation-state exerts its transnational force by propagating American culture and ideology, ‘American Dream,’ all over the world and by causing Asian people to aspire to immigrate to the U.S. The author's attention is paid to search for the way immigrants are able to survive against the transnational force of America. She suggests an ancient Indian belief on the healing power of spices as a survival strategy which relieves the distressed lives of South Asian immigrants dominated by male-centered immigrant community as well as the racialization of the whole American society. That is, Divakaruni maintains a significant bonding with the cultural or spiritual heritage of her home country through transnational imagination. The author also creates a transnational women’s place by revising a traditional Indian epic narrative from women-centered point of view and putting an emphasis on the importance of transnational female solidarity as a resistance against the atriarchal ideology of Indian-American immigrant community. Thus, transnational discourse can be regarded as the useful approach which suggests a new understanding of Asian-American immigrant novels in that it provides not only a critical paradigm for approaching American society but examines immigrants’ resistant practices against the racialization of American society.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 초국가로서의 미국

Ⅲ. 초국가적 의식

Ⅳ. 초국가적 여성 공간

Ⅴ. 나아가며

키워드

치트라 배너지 디바카루니 미국 이민소설 남아시아계 미국문학 초국가주의 세계화 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni the U.S. Immigrant Novel South Aisan American Literature transnationalism globalization