길먼의 『면죄』에 나타난 '중세적' 억압에 대항하는 여성주체

• 영문명: The Female Subject Against "Mediaeval" Oppression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Unpunished: A Mystery
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 손정희(Jeonghee Sohn) 한우리(Woo Ri Han)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제44집 2호, 37~57쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.09.30

영문 초록

This article is to examine Unpunished: A Mystery, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's final detective novel, by reading it as a female gothic novel and a survival story of a postmodernist female subject. The narrative of this novel changes the fundamental question of a detective novel, 'who killed the dead man,' into why the murderer has to kill this man. By doing so, the novel focuses on an aggressor who deserves to die and a female victim released from domestic violence. This novel is, thus, a female gothic novel which reveals the life of a suffering heroine who is sexualized as an object of desire and victimized by a powerful male villain. The heroine, Jacqueline, deliberates the survival strategies of role-playing and masquerade. She challenges the oppression of a villain, Mr. Vaughn, with studied posture of conformity as if she acted on stage. With scars on her face, which serve as a mask to hide her feeling, Jacqueline acts as a perfect housekeeper. Moreover, Jacqueline makes Mr. Vaughn die from heart attack by wearing a mask of Iris, her sister, who was victimized by Mr. Vaughn and committed suicide. This doubly masked Jacqueline is not only an active heroine in the female gothic novel but also a gender performative subject who takes up not only femininity but also masculinity. Jacqueline's gender performance is well represented in her three different names, Mrs. Warner/ Jacqueline/ Jack. Mrs. Warner seems to represent a woman who safely settles in the male-dominant patriarchal society. Yet she is also called as Jacqueline, an equal pair of Iris, her sister. However, called as a male name Jack, she plays a role as protector of children and her sister. This protean changeability of her names embodies her gender-flexibility which makes her survive despite patriarchal oppression. To sum up, in Unpunished, Gilman depicts a postmodernist female subject who successfully overthrows the Father's law and survives "mediaeval" gothic conventions imposed on woman.

목차

Ⅰ. 길먼의 '추리소설' 다시 읽기

Ⅱ. 고딕소설의 희생자 여성과 여성고딕의 능동적 여성

Ⅲ. 가면을 쓴 여주인공: 고딕페미니즘과 수행적 젠더 정체성

Ⅳ. 나가며

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

살롯 퍼킨스 길먼 『면죄: 미스테리』 여성고딕 가면 젠더 수행성 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Unpunished: A Mystery Female Gothic mask Gender Performance