멕시코계 미국인의 식민주의와 인종주의 역사 읽기

• 영문명: Reading the Mexican-Americans' Colonial History and Racism in José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 하상복(Sang-Bok Ha)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제95호, 229~252쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

영문 초록

José Antonio Villarreal‘s Pocho is the first modern Mexican-American novel and occupies an important place in Chicano literary history. After the publication in 1959, some literary critics criticized this novel because of its literary shortcomings. The defenders of the Chicano Movement also condemned Villarreal and his novel for being too assimilated. And other critics evaluated this novel as a Chicano version of the Western bildungsroman, or regarded the protagonist, Richard, as the American Adam. This estimation undervalues Pocho as an excessively assimilationist novel or a poorly second one without considering political, historical, and racial realties. So this paper aims to seek out the right estimation and understanding of this novel, focusing on political and historical realities, and racial power relationship related with characters and events in the novel. Section Ⅱ and Ⅲ explain the historical and political backgrounds that force Mexicans to move into the United States through the story of Juan Rubio, the protagonist's father. And these sections discuss their lives in this country suffered from the same colonial realities as those in Mexico. Section Ⅳ reveals the Americans' distorted attitudes to racial difference and racial discrimination against the Mexican Americans, focusing on Richard's awareness of the discrimination and inequality that is diffused everywhere. This section also shows Richard's frustration, that is, one of second-generation Mexican- Americans as in-between subjects that don't assimilate into the US dominant culture nor follow the traditional Mexican culture.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 혁명의 변질과 지속된 식민화의 역사

Ⅲ. 이주와 식민화된 노동의 역사

Ⅳ. 인종 차이와 차별의 인식, 그리고 좌절된 문화 소통

Ⅴ. 나가며

키워드

호세 안토니오 비야레알  포초 치카노 소설 멕시코계 미국인 다인종 문학 식민주의 인종차별주의 José Antonio Villarreal Pocho Chicano Novel Mexican American Multiethnic Literature colonialism racism