토니 모리슨의 『그 아이에게 신의 가호가 있기를』 에 나타난 흑인여성의 정체성 박탈과 회복의 과정

• 영문명: Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Dispossession and Recovery of African American Identity
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 김혜진(Hyejin Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제49집 3호, 127~147쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.12.30

영문 초록

Toni Morrison’s latest novel God Help the Child retells how African Americans suffered from double consciousness over generations and how they react to it. The prior generations, like Sweetness in the novel, learned to admit the dispossessed black identity and abused their children in order to accept their inferiority. However, Bride in the twenty-first century manages to commodify her black skin as a symbol of beauty to achieve social position and wealth, thereby partially traversing the persistent concept of black ugliness. However, her performance of race still fails to fully recover her sense of being that was once dispossessed by discrimination and abandonment. When Bride confronts another abandonment by her boyfriend, her body is transformed into a little black girl which ironically gives her the opportunity to develop interdependent and caring relationships with other abused victims. Through the novel, Morrison asks for communal responsibilities to build interdependence to resist dispossession and discrimination under the oppressing culture both in individual and on a communal level.

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키워드

박탈 이중의식 수행성 상호의존성 회복 dispossession double consciousness performativity interdependency recovery