『풀잎은 노래한다』에 재현된 인종과 젠더의 이중적 아브젝시옹

• 영문명: The Grass is Singing: Double-bound Abjection of Race and Gender
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제145호, 19~39쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.06.30

영문 초록

This paper aims to discuss how the protagonist’s subjectivity can be achieved in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing by reading it from a Kristevan perspective. To this end, it explores the relationships of abjection that the poor white female subject Mary has with patriarchal white community and colonized black natives respectively. On the level of personal archeology, abjection is the process through which an infant begins to develop a sense of a discrete “I” by rejecting and expelling the maternal abject; on the socio-historical level, abjection is the matrix on which societies are founded and maintain their identities by constructing boundaries and jettisoning the antisocial abjects. Under the influences of double-bound abjection operating by cross-hatched intersection of race and gender conflicts, Mary is pushed out as abject by the white community, but at the same time casts Moses as abject. However, as Mary develops an intimate relationship with Moses, she realizes that alterity she repudiates can exist without being repressed or expelled, and that she can be constituted as a mature subject only by recognizing and embracing alterity within herself.

목차

1. 들어가며

2. 아브젝시옹의 확장: 인종과 젠더의 문제로

3. 가부장적 백인사회의 균열로서의 아브젝트

4. 젠더, 인종, 그리고 ‘검은색 위험’의 아브젝시옹

5. 나가며

인용문헌

키워드

『풀잎은 노래한다』 도리스 레싱 주체성 인종 젠더 아브젝시옹 아파르트헤이트 The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing subjectivity race gender abjection apartheid