"상상의 형식 속 역사" 읽기 : 조이스 캐롤 오츠의 『그들』과 화해의 공간

• 영문명: Reading "History in Fictional Form": Joyce Carol Oates" them and the Space of Compromise
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 정은귀(Eun-Gwi Chung)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제37집 2호, 205~228쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.09.01

영문 초록

  This essay revisits Joyce Carol Oates" 1969 novel them, "a work of history in fictional form" in terms of the space of compromise and explores the intricate relationships of people living in a modern city. How does one survive in the margins of a bleak modern city where every promising dreaming is completely blocked? How does the fictional form written from a personal perspective become public history? As a socio-economic document based on autobiographical facts, as a psychodrama about the awakening of levels of consciousness, them reveals the underlying mechanism concerning violence of man, authority, system, and society. In the process of creating "history in fictional form" beyond an otherwise formless life, Oates excavates the fantasy of independent men, harmonious families and communities and portrays seething violences of city civilization as the power of vitiating the human potential. What is formed and confirmed throughout these terrible turmoils is the writer"s belief in writing and a possibility of opening another history through the acts of writing and reading. At this point, her melodrama becomes a "Bildungsroman" which initiates both heroines and readers into a new stage of consciousness, marking the state of "being-together" and "feeling-together" in this world, here and now, as the only space of compromise.

목차

1. 들어가는 말
2. 관계의 안과 밖, 가족과 사회
3. 형식을 통한 목소리내기
4. 맺는말
인용 문헌
Abstract

키워드

상상의 형식 도시 공간 그들 함께 있음 지금 여기 화해 fictional form city space them being-together here and now compromise