『톰 소여의 모험』 다시 읽기

• 영문명: Re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 서숙(Sook Suh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제14집 2호, 161~178쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.12.30

영문 초록

One of the main themes underlying American novels, especially the 19th century American novels, concerns the utopian vision, the vision for a better world. The Founding Fathers, having left the Old World with their vision of building a new city on a virgin land, had to eradicate the Native Americans and the Black slaves in the process of fulfilling their vision. They marginalized them as the Others. The writers and novelists, in turn, have attempted to create their utopian vision by restoring them back to life through the literary space. Mark Twain’s utopian vision is well depicted in his two novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain criticizes and ridicules the racially discriminating small town, and in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, envisions an alternative order by indicting the slavery culture. In this essay, as a way of emphasizing the revolutionary and liberating vision latent in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I aim to explore the controlling and hypocritical world of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

키워드

유토피안 비전 인종차별 타자 대안질서 Utopian vision racial discrimination Others alternative order