버지니아 울프의 『올랜도』와 얀 마텔의 『셀프』에 나타난 젠더 허물기 정치학

• 영문명: The Politics of Undoing Gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Yann Martel’s Self
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 이슬
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』제27집 2호, 79~108쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.09.30

영문 초록

This paper examines intertextuality between Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Yann Martel’s Self, focusing on the way in which each text grapples with undoing gender essentialism. Despite being set in different times and spaces, both novels demonstrate common threads: the protagonist challenges binary gender norms and heteronormativity; their gender is unintentionally transformed. In this regard, Martel’s novel should be understood as a successor to Woolf’s Orlando, as it is advertised as “A Modern-Day Orlando” by the publisher. Strangely enough, however, both texts have rarely been examined together. Thus, I argue that Orlando and Self resonate with one another as they explore gender and sexual fluidity through their main characters while simultaneously problematizing fixed categories of sex, gender, and sexuality, along with language derived from binary and heterosexual assumptions. Woolf and Martel experiment and break down rigid distinctions of gender, language, and even literary genres by blending biographical or autobiographical forms with other literary styles in their respective novels. Gender nonconformity practiced by the two characters illustrates that gender is performativity and one’s self is constantly negotiated through interactions with others. Hence, this paper interrogates how Woolf and Martel envision gender non-conforming subjects’ livable lives to demonstrate the politics of queer life.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가기

Ⅱ. 올랜도의 젠더 수행성과 규범

Ⅲ. 얀 마텔의 『셀프』가 드러내는 남성-여성-남성의 삶

Ⅳ. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

얀 마텔 버지니아 울프 성별 전환 젠더 수행 『올랜도』 『셀프』 Yann Martel Virginia Woolf gender transformation gender performativity Orlando Self