민족주의에 대한 예이츠의 상반되는 두 목소리

• 영문명: W. B. Yeats’s Two Contradictory Voices Concerning Irish Nationalism
• 발행기관: 한국예이츠학회
• 저자명: 구자광(Jakwang Gu)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국 예이츠 저널』24권, 5~26쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.30

국문 초록

There are two contradictory voices in W. B. Yeats concerning Irish nationalism. One is for support of Irish nationalism against the English colonial reign and its accompanying heroic sacrifices for the cause of Ireland. The other one is criticism against excessive demands for sacrifices for the sake of independence of Ireland. Instead of putting the first voice ahead of the second one, Yeats tries to record the two voices at the same time: the voice of justification of sacrifices for nationalism and the voice warning danger in nationalism as a commentary on nationalism. These ambivalent attitudes toward nationalism cannot be understood just as his uncertainties and ambivalent stance he took on Irish politics and his lack of understanding of reality. Rather, Yeats could be said as a faithful recorder of the inner territories of experiences of individuals in everyday life and reality under colonial reign and its countermovement of nationalism. He does not ignore the intimate and latent feelings of individuals (on the side of “body”) heard through the loud exclamations of nationalistic causes (on the side of “spirit”). Yeats can be said as a postcolonial poet in so far as he supports Irish nationalism but with a hint of anti-nationalistic attitudes, he also raises questions about danger in postcolonial politics. He cannot be called just a crude propagandist of Irish nationalism. Rather by taking balanced attitudes toward nationalism and excessive sacrifices of individuals through nationalistic causes, Yeats suggests that nationalism could be an ideology and gives a warning sign that postcolonial politics should not forget its dark side.

키워드

예이츠 경험의 지형 탈 식민 민족주의 반민족주의 정신과 육체 W. B. Yeats territories of experience post-colonialism nationalism anti-nationalism spirit and body