19세기 미국흑인여성작가의 비극적 뮬라타 : 피부색과 장르의 정치학

• 영문명: Tragic Mulatta of Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers: the Discursive Politics of Skin Color and Genre
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 윤조원(Joe won Yoon)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제48집 2호, 83~110쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.09.30

영문 초록

Already in the mid-nineteenth century, African American women writers endeavored to express their experience. To appeal to the reading public and disseminate their messages effectively, they appropriated conventional literary devices and the popular stereotype of the tragic mulatta. Such appropriations enabled them to create a hybridized genre of novel that combines testimonials and fiction. African American women authors representations of tragic mulatta became a vehicle through which they expounded the flexibility of racial identity and explored the possibilities of racial relations. As an apt sign of hybridity born of interlocked issues of gender and race in the American context, the tragic mulatta recurred in the nineteenth-century American writing, as if to reflect a widespread cultural anxiety regarding the (im)possibility of racial co-existence within one national body. By dismantling the stereotypical fate of the tragic mulatta, Harriet Wilson, Julia Collins, and Frances Harper redefine the mulatta s hybrid identity not as the source of fatal trauma that incapacitates black subjectivity altogether but as a viable ground upon which a new black subjectivity may be envisioned. This study examines these writers literary engagements with the tragic mulatta character and explicates the political and historical significance of their outcomes.

목차

1. 격변의 시대, 19세기 중후반 미국의 흑인문학

2. 혼종성의 정치학: 서사전략과 이중적 담론의 교섭

3. 비극적 뮬라타 를 넘어: 본질론과 정형의 해체

4. 혼종적 글쓰기와 인종적 혼종성의 미시정치학

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Abstract

키워드

19세기 미국흑인여성작가 비극적 뮬라타 인종 피부색 혼종성 Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers tragic mulatta race skin color hybridity