퀜튼 컴슨과 남부의 정신

• 영문명: Quentin Compson and the Mind of the South in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!
• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 강지현(Kang, Jihyun)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제27집, 21~43쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.31

영문 초록

The One South myth emphasizes that the South is homogeneous and monological even though the South is heterogeneous and multiple-voiced. In a way, the One South has become the standard for understanding the Southern identity since the Civil War and Reconstruction. Crafting the old plantation days into a golden age of perfect race, class, and gender harmony, the boom in Old South nostalgia and sentimentality began as Southern oratory in order to justify the lost cause of the Civil War and to make the freed blacks know their inferior place. William Faulkner, as an American writer situated in the South, tries to trace and represent the mind of the South that has a fairly definite mental system. Most importantly, the mind of the South is continuous with the past. William Faulkner uses the past very uniquely in a way that the past is an inescapable part of the present and that the present grows out of the past. Many characters in his novels are obsessed with a personal, family, or regional past to the extent that they are trapped in the past they cannot escape from at all. Quentin Compson, one of main narrators in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, shows why the South is obsessed with the inescapable past and how the South tries to escape from it. In The Sound and the Fury, Quentin tries in vain to redeem the fallen honor of his family and the South. Transplanted from Mississippi to Massachusetts, Quentin recognizes the difference between Southern and Northern racial etiquette. The awareness of socially constructed Southern racism stops Quentin from figuring out who he is. Two different Quentins, a Southern gentleman from Mississippi and a Harvard student in Massachusetts at the same time, is consumed by the past. Quentin is deeply engaged in the recreation and reinterpretation of the past in Absalom, Absalom!. As far as the white South goes, history is not only a time but also a cultural space in which it crafts a new southern order. Quentin and his roommate Shreve McCannon reconstruct Thomas Sutpen's past according to the principle of the father. Their monological reconstruction reveals how the Southern History is established while the other's histories are erased.

목차

I. 들어가는 말

II. 남부의 정신과 퀜튼 컴슨의 분열상

III. 남부의 정신과 역사가로서의 퀜튼 컴슨의 면모

IV. 나가는 말

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

윌리엄 포크너 퀜 튼 컴슨 남부의 정신 역사기록학 대화주의 William Faulkner Quentin Compson The Mind of the South historiography dialogism