『프레데릭 더글러스의 인생 이야기』에 나타난 더글러스의 자아정체성과 사회의식

• 영문명: Self Identity and Social Consciousness in Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 이진준(Jin-Jun Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제35집 2호, 292~311쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.09.01

영문 초록

  Frederick Douglass"s Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself shows the process of the formation of his self identity and social consciousness and the restoration of solidarity among the blacks which had been blotted out during the inhumane slavery of the South. The purpose of this essay is to clarify the process and its meaning. Douglass devoted his life to overcoming the inhumane feudal value system implanted in him by the Southern slavery and to acquiring modem consciousness. The Southern slavery systematically prevented blacks from having their own self identities and social consciousness by destroying their individual personality and pouring the distorted morality and religion of the whites into them. Furthermore, the whites maintained their social and economic system by degrading the blacks to "chattel", dissolving the families of the blacks and subordinating their sexuality to the desires of the white males. Douglass"s long process of emancipation―his acquisition of literacy, his struggle with his master Covey, the groping of solidarity among the blacks on Freeland’s farm, his life at the shipyard in Baltimore, and his final escape to the North-coincides with the process of the formation of his self identity and social consciousness.

키워드

남부 노예제도 자아 정체성 사회의식 연대 the South slavery self identity social consciousness solidarity