「자비」를 통한 토니 모리슨의 18세기 노예서사 다시쓰기

• 영문명: Toni Morrison ’ s Re-writing of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Narratives in A Mercy
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이영철(Young Cheol Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제19집 2호, 121~145쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.09.30

영문 초록

This study is to discuss Morrison’s rewriting of the eighteenth-century slave narratives in A Mercy. Morrison’s A Mercy is set in the same period as are the eighteenth-century slave narratives. All the eighteenth-century slave narratives echo a single voice. The generic field includes captivity, sea adventure stories, criminal confession, conversional narratives, and picaresque novels. It describes the concrete detail of lives spent under slavery and aims to criticise the injustices of the slave trade and slavery on the basis of Christian principles. Therefore, it can be read as a religious genre within the norms of civilized or Christian identity. However, Morrison echoes multiple voices in A Mercy. Her non-named chapters alternate between Florens’s first-person narratives and third-person narratives from the perspectives of other characters. Unlike the eighteenth-century slave narrative writers, she exposes the pernicious separations between elect and damned, white and black produced by the binary logic of the American exceptionalism that is based on Puritanism and Protestantism. As a black female writer, she also exposes white slave owners’ sexual violence, an issue overlooked by the eighteenth-century male slave writers. Finally, Morrison doesn’t conclude her novel with a happy-ending. At the end of the novel, her racial characters aren’t freed from slavery. Their lives don’t echo the evangelic happiness of the eighteenth-century slave narrative writers.

목차

I. 머리말

II. 일인칭 서술, 납치서사, 모험서사, 피카레스크 서사에 대한 전복적 역사쓰기

III. 기독교관에 대한 전복적 역사쓰기

IV. 멈추지 않는 고통에 대한 역사쓰기

V. 맺음말

키워드

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