호손의 반점 에 나타난 인종, 젠더, 국가

• 영문명: Race, Gender, Nation on Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 한우리(Woo Ri Han)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제53집 1호, 189~209쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.05.31

영문 초록

By the 1840s the racial question was at the heart of scholarly discussion in the United States, and few writers could avoid vigorous discussions of superior and inferior races. This paper argues that “The Birthmark,” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843, is coded the political discourses on race and gender ideology. Aylmer, a newly wedded scientist, is anxious to remove a crimson stain upon Georgiana’s white cheek, which might indicate the ‘one drop of blood’ of African Americans in her artery. Aylmer desperately but unsuccessfully allocates the proper ‘place’ for wife, husband, underworker, white and black, not only from the fear of contamination by crossing the color line but also from the desire to fixate the normative gender roles of the middle-class ideology. His experiment and its failure imply deep anxiety of the white-men-nation to maintain the difference, which is a national fantasy undermined by the ineffaceable birthmark and unforgettable laughter of Aminadab.

목차

1. 호손과 인종문제

2. 진홍빛 반점과 ‘한 방울의 피’

3. 분리된 영역 이데올로기와 공간 침입

4. 에일머의 남성성과 국가적 판타지

5. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

호손 반점 인종 분리된 영역 이데올로기 국가적 판타지 Hawthorne The Birthmark Race Separate Spheres Ideology National Fantasy