통제되지 않는 여자들과 불안해하는 남자들 : 『해는 또다시 떠오른다』에 재현된 성 역할

• 영문명: Uncontrollable Women and Male Anxiety: The Representation of Gender in The Sun Also Rises
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 문상영(Sahng Young Moon)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제37집 2호, 52~78쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.09.01

영문 초록

  This paper tries to reveal the gender prejudices of the male author in his portrayal of female characters in The Sun Also Rises. As the narrator of this novel, Jake Barnes betrays his anxieties about the emergence of the sexually liberated women. In the past, many critics showed a tendency to divide Hemingway"s female characters into two easily recognizable types, namely either ideal helpmates or bitches. However, Hemingway"s portrayal of Brett Ashley seems to challenge this kind of simple dichotomy. Hemingway"s text is important in that it reflects the cultural struggle of the time, especially the conflict between the old and the modern values concerning gender roles. American women gained the suffrage in 1920, thus having a momentum for expressing their political voices and for participating in many social areas traditionally regarded as men"s. In this novel, Brett is representative of the new generation of sexually liberated women. In contrast, male characters are not prepared to deal with these new types of aggressive women. Despite his critical stance toward the often sexually hypocritical attitudes of the Americans, Hemingway"s upbringing in a middle-class Protestant home seems to prevent him from condoning the sexual freedom of women. In this context, Jake"s war wound needs to be seen as a metaphor for his anxieties about his own masculinity against the threats of Brett and other uncontrollable women in the novel. Being finally unable to problematize the dominant gender and sexual binarisms such as masculine/feminine and heterosexual/homosexual, Jake prefers to maintain the old values, where gender roles are more clearly defined, In addition, this novel is not just filled with homophobic descriptions, but also with prejudiced comments about Jews, African Americans, and foreigners. Wishing to be a successful author, Hemingway seems to have analyzed, and made his novel accommodate to, the cultural codes of his readers.

키워드

헤밍웨이 『해는 또다시 떠오른다』 서술자 남성성/여성성 반유태주의 Hemingway The Sun Also Rises narrator gender masculinity femininity nativism anti-Semitism