제국주의 여행 서사 비판과 교육

• 영문명: Critique and Education of Imperialism in Travel Writing: Reading Mary Louise Pratt’s Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation along with Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 조성란(Sungran Cho)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제24집 1호, 139~160쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.04.30

영문 초록

This article reads Mary Louis Pratt’s Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation and Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place as travel writing critiques. Pratt’s book explores how European imperialism and colonialism join forces with the travel writing from seventeenth to nineteenth century. Pratt asserts travel narrative in these periods provided ‘Europeans at home’ with imperial perspectives. By using ideology critique and discourse analysis, Pratt revives ‘mutual gaze’ between the traveler and the native. Pratt also offers the concept of ‘Contact Zone’ where two different cultures, historically and geographically separated in the past, socially meet, collide and fight without making homogeneous perspectives. Her study is important because it focuses on mutual influence between the ‘center’ and ‘periphery’ from a postcolonial perspective. Jamaica Kincaid, an American novelist from Antigua who writes of diaspora also criticizes the imperial ideology in travel narratives in her genre-bending narrative, A Small Place. While Pratt directly counters ‘Imperial eyes’ and ‘Imperial I’, Kincaid reveals how imperialism and its legacy have had negative influence on Antigua’s everyday lives. Regarding an imperialist as a personal tourist, an “anti-tour guide”, Kincaid/narrator guides ‘you’, especially a white North American or European tourist to see what ‘you’ see as well as what ‘you’ do not see in Antigua. I argue that A Small Place is also an imperialist ideology critique like Pratt’s book. Moreover I argue that Antigua is a Contact zone and A Small Place is a narrative in the Contact Zone. Kincaid has created different kind of tourist guide, travel writing, and ideology critique using a different rhetorical strategy and language use.

목차

I. 서론

II. 제국의 시선, 여행가의 시선: 메리 루이스 프랫

III. 『작은 곳』의 관광객

IV. 평범함으로의 복귀

V. 나가며

인용문헌

키워드

『제국의 시선』 『작은 곳』 접촉지대 여행 서사 탈식민 문화비평 메리루이스 프랫 자메이카 킨케이드 Contact Zone Imperial Eyes A Small Place travel writing postcolonial culture critique Mary Louise Pratt Jamaica Kincaid