Drifting and Deterritorialization in Dionne Brand’s Love Enough

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 이신영(Shinyoung Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제52집 3호, 181~207쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.12.30

영문 초록

Dionne Brand provides the reader with vivid representations of the dilemmas and agonies from which people excluded in the history of belonging have been suffering. One of her latest novels Love Enough (2014) deals with the protagonists’ unceasing trial and error in the process of surviving in Toronto. In this paper, I analyze how Da’uud, Bedri, and Ghost’s process of drifting in Toronto causes a rupture with the monolithic sense of belonging in order to argue that they succeed in developing their own sense of belonging and connection and then reach in-between space, based on a link between Brand’s ideation of drifting and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s conceptualization of deterritorialization. It would be meaningful to elucidate how Da’uud, Bedri, and Ghost’s everyday lives develop the possibility of loving themselves and each other enough, ultimately shedding light on the very beginning of the rupture with the history of belonging.

목차

I. Drifting: Derivation from the History and Cartography

II. Deterritorialization: Drifting for Deviation

III. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Dionne Brand Love Enough Drifting Deterritorialization History of belonging