세 도시 이야기: (탈)식민주의 도시풍경의 세 가지 양상

• 영문명: Story of Three Cities: Three Aspects of Post-colonial Landscapes.
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 양종근(Jongkeun Yang)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제132호, 61~82쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2019.03.30

영문 초록

The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the effects of (post)-colonialism on the lives and landscapes of three different cities – Paris, Dubline, and Port of Spain, each of which is described in The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, Dubliners by James Joyce, and Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul. Benjamin wants to show the map of an early capitalist city to criticize mass influences of Phantasmagoria of the capitalist market and encourage the mass to confirm their class consciousness. To achieve this purpose, it is definitely important for Benjamin to show the ‘facts’ as they are, not opinions or ideologies. This is one of the reasons why he uses ‘montage’ as his writing technique. Contrary to the general belief, Joyce always has much concern about his homeland. The main theme of his Dubliners , paralysis, is designed to depict the sufferings and miseries of Irish people under the British colonial suppression and exploitation. Meanwhile, Naipaul portrays the lives of Indian immigrants in the Caribbean society who have been confined in poverty, helplessness, and weariness. The fact that their immigration as indentured laborers was implemented for the colonial nations shows the negative effects of (post)-colonialism. These three works reaffirm that colonialism isn’t beneficial to either colonizing or colonized nations in that it brings illusion on merchandise, moral hazard, and cognitive distortion.

키워드

Walter Benjamin James Joyce V. S. Naipaul The Arcades Project Dubliners Miguel Street post-colonialism phantasmagoria paralysis ambivalence 벤야민 조이스 나이폴 『아케이드 프로젝트』 『더블린 사람들』 『미겔 스트리트』 탈식민주의 환등상 마비 양가성