포스트콜로니얼 전기소설에 나타난 디아스포라의 초상

• 영문명: A Portrait of Diaspora in Postcolonial Biofiction: Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 이정화(Jung-Hwa Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제141호, 133~151쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.06.30

영문 초록

This essay examines Caryl Phillips’s biofiction, A View of the Empire at Sunset that describes Jean Rhys’s life, paying particular attention to the convergence of the biographical and the autobiographical. Discussions on biofiction have often reinstated the binary oppositions of history/biography, fact/fiction, or biography/novel. Phillips’s biofiction, however, calls such binaries into question by drawing upon actual events and real characters in Rhys’s (or Gwen’s to use her birth name) life while empathetically recreating her emotions. A View of the Empire at Sunset depicts Gwen’s trip to Dominica with her British husband that actually took place in 1936 in order to explore the diasporic state of homelessness. By comparing Phillips’s biofiction and Rhys’s autobiographical accounts of her homecoming, I contend that A View of the Empire at Sunset describes much more acutely Gwen’s anxiety over rendering her diasporic experience understandable to English people than Rhys’s writings. As a migrant writer born in the Caribbean and raised in England, Phillips exploits Rhys’s life ambivalently located in-between the Caribbean and England and addresses his own sense of homelessness and the burden of representation. In conclusion, A View of the Empire at Sunset offers a (self-)portrait of a diasporic writer, thus making the text both biographical and autobiographical.

키워드

카릴 필립스 『제국의 노을 풍경』 전기소설 포스트콜로니얼 전기소설 진 리스 집 집 없음 상호텍스트성 Caryl Phillips A View of the Empire at Sunset Biofiction Postcolonial Biofiction Jean Rhys Home Homelessness Intertextuality