학술논문
Going Mad in America: Immigrant Writers and Narratives of Insanity
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- 영문명
- 발행기관
- 한국아메리카학회
- 저자명
- Ji Hye Shin
- 간행물 정보
- 『미국학논집』제46집 3호, 233~259쪽, 전체 27쪽
- 주제분류
- 인문학 > 기타인문학
- 파일형태
- 발행일자
- 2014.12.01
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국문 초록
영문 초록
This essay examines immigrants' experiences with insanity in early twentieth-century America and discusses the ways in which their narratives of pain and suffering have contributed to our understandings of immigration, illness, and Americanization. Due to the lack of historical sources that shed light on how immigrants dealt with their insanity, or mental illness in general, it employs fictional and autobiographical narratives of insanity by early immigrant writers, including O. E. Rølvaag, Sui Sin Far, and William Saroyan. While Americans often viewed insanity as a result of failed adaptation, these immigrant authors' narratives and characters with insanity showed that immigrants, despite facing emotional difficulties, possible deportations, and other legal actions, managed to negotiate their new lives and construct unique paths to becoming American. Through their encounter with insanity, the mad characters found a sense of place in the New World, where they would build a life for themselves and their family members. Compared to more recent ethnic writings, the narratives of insanity in the first half of the twentieth century were limited in that they conceded to the hegemonic American imagining of the "Other" and rarely subverted or resisted the classic narrative of assimilation and Americanization. They offered, however, divergent representations of immigrant pain and suffering, which were not merely a step to achieve American norms of success but also a means to cope with their alternative notions of madness and sense of reality. For them, insanity was neither a failure in itself nor proof of failed assimilation; rather, it was a "justified and reasonable" response to American civilization.
목차
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Assimilation and Adaptation: An American Perspective
Ⅲ. Immigrant Writers and Narratives of Insanity
Ⅳ. Conclusion
Works Cited
Abstract
키워드
해당간행물 수록 논문
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- 대서양횡단 연구와 미국문학의 범부 다시 보기
- 공화당 내전과 2014년 미국 중간선거
- 장벽과 울타리의 디스토피아
- Cathy Song's Picture Bride as an Ethnic Autobiography
- The American Dream Gone Bad: Suicide and American Migrants in the Yokohama Treaty Port, 1859-1899
- 미국인의 소득 불평등 인식과 인종
- 미국 생활임금 논의 재고찰
- Going Mad in America: Immigrant Writers and Narratives of Insanity
- 오바마 독트린에 내포된 미국의 국가 정체성과 국제정치적 표상
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