Readinf in the Dark

• 영문명: Readinf in the Dark: Traumatic Ethnicity and Family Therapy
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: Sang-wook Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제19집 3호, 165~184쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.12.09

영문 초록

Reading in the Dark is Seamus Deane’s historiographic account of the “uncreated Irish conscience” in the Northern Irish city Derry. The young narrator-protagonist in the novel is awakened to the divisive reality of the Irish people. It is the English colonialism that creates the psychology of the treachery among the Irish people. This essay mainly deals with the Irish dysfunctional family system in which Anglo-Irish politics involves family members in stressful emotional interdependency. In Reading in the Dark, Eddie’s execution ordered by the narrator’s maternal grandfather is a historical and family trauma causing all the family members to suffer from emotional distress in their own way. A main argument in this essay is that the Irish betrayal is an ethnic psychology produced when the Irish mind is contradictorily double-bound by the dictates of Irish nationalism and English colonialism.

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키워드

English colonialism Irish nationalism Northern Ireland dysfunctional family trauma