플랜테이션 관광 서사에 나타난 미국 만들기

• 영문명: The Myth of Americanness: Tour Narratives of Laura, A Creole Plantation
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 한우리(Woo Ri Han) 손정희(Jeonghee Sohn)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제49집 1호, 177~195쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.05.30

영문 초록

This paper examines tour narratives of Laura: A Creole Plantation in Louisiana as an “invented tradition” of the nationalistic project for consolidating the American identity. With marketing efforts to create an authentically satisfying tourist experience, history is transformed into a cultural heritage while past memories are reassembled and reaccommodated. This mediated version of a tradition becomes important in the construction of a national identity. This paper proposes to dig up seemingly invisible ideological effects of heritage tour narratives. The tour narratives of Laura: Creole Plantation produces the myth of Americanness which seems to state that racial others were allowed to be an American citizen. When Laura rejects the traditional, immoderate Creole world and chooses to live as a modern, liberated American woman, this exotification of Creoles renders the Other invisible and silenced. Thus, a complexity of tour narratives embedded in the heritage site points to problematics in that a constructed heritage instills nationalism but silences the history of slavery and racial discrimination.

목차

1. 들어가며: 관광 서사와 변형된 역사로서의 유적

2. 로라 플랜테이션 투어가 제공하는 서사들

3. 로라 플랜테이션 관광 가이드 해설과 관람 경험

4. 회고록이 말한 것과 말하지 않는 것

5. ‘전통적인’ 크레올 vs. ‘현대적인’ 미국인

6. 나가며: 유적관광의 정치성

키워드

Laura: A Creole Plantation slavery heritage tour tour narrative “Invented Tradition” Americanness