근대성, 인종주의, 코즈모폴리턴 공동체

• 영문명: Modernity, Racism, and Cosmopolitan Community: Re-Reading of Mary Shelley’s
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 허정애(Jeong-Ae Huh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제107호, 41~63쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

The critical introspection into Western modernity began to be discussed with a full-scale by postmodernists and post-colonialists only in the late twentieth-century. Mary Shelley seems to be a very modem writer because, in Frankenstein, she attempted critical introspection as early as 1818. In Frankenstein, set in Europe in 1790s, Shelley explores the contradictory aspects of modem enlightenment which, despite its emphasis on universal brotherhood and cosmopolitanism, despises the racial other as a savage and an inferior being who cannot share in the light of reason or in the enlightenment. Shelly's critical attitude toward Western modernity is portrayed by the duality of three European men, English Robert Walton, Genevese Victor Frankenstein, and French Felix De Lacey, who believe in the ideal of universal brotherhood and cosmopolitanism in theory but practise racial prejudice in reality. Through the Victor's creature, a cosmopolitan, Shelley proposes an alternative of building a new cosmopolitan community to realize the ideal of brotherhood and cosmopolitanism by subverting existing familial, national, and religious community.

목차

Abstract

1. 들어가며

2. 월튼, 빅터, 펠릭스: 근대성의 모순과 인종주의

3. 비판과 대안: 피조물의 폭력과 코즈모폴리턴 공동체

4. 나가며

인용문헌

키워드

메리 셸리 『프랑켄슈타인』 근대성 인종주의 형제애 코즈모폴리터니즘 공감 공동체 Mary Shelley Frankenstein modernity racism brotherhood cosmopolitanism sympathy community