리스(Jean Rhys)의 후기단편소설 「선구자, 오 선구자여와「수상한 상황」:‘위치지울 수 없는’ 이방인의 존재를 통해 드러나는 제국 시민의 내면

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 오은영
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제34집, 79~105쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.05.31

영문 초록

Jean Rhys's many short stories, published in the 1960s and 1970s, are set in the turn of the century and the early 20th century when the British empire had spurted to educate the British people to embody its imperial ideology. Among them, “Pioneers, Oh Pioneers” and “Fishy Waters,” included in Sleep If Off, Lady (1976), capture the moment that British colonists living in Roseau of Dominica get isolated and deteriorated inside their soul. The moment is revealed through colonists's encounter with strangers such as Mr Ramage in “Pioneers, Oh Pioneers” and Jimmy Longa in “Fishy Waters.” Zygmunt Bauman explains in Modernity and Ambivalence that strangers are, in principle, unplaceable in between the subject and the other. Thus strangers are the ones that can question the very principle of the opposition of the subject and the other which should be clearly placed under the social norms of the European colonialists. This paper examines how the British colonists presented in these two stories respond to these strangers. Rhys portrays the white colonial society through Rosalie's point of view, a little girl aged 9, to reveal its blindness while applying the detective narrative in “Fishy Waters” to expose its doubleness. The narrative of each story interestingly reveals the monstrosity of British colonists in the process of investigating hybrid and seemingly monstrous strangers. In doing so, Rhys criticizes the British imperialism by disclosing the way in which the intolerance of anything different and unplaceable lead people to violence and blindness.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 식민지 백인사회의 맹목과 ‘위치지울 수 없는’ 이방

인 ―「선구자」

Ⅲ. 탐정소설의 서사와 식민지 백인사회의 이중성 -「수

상한 상황」

Ⅳ. 나가며

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Abstract

키워드

Unplaceable strangers the opposition between the subject and the other the detective narrative modernity ambivalence 위치지울 수 없는 이방인 주체와 타자의 대립 탐정소설 서사 모더니티 양가성