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The MBC documentary, The Tears of the Amazon, aired early in the year 2010 and which has received much attention from audiences and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest both have as their background the Amazon, taken over and destroyed by globalization powers. The present tragic situation of the 7 Amazon Indios tribes who have become environmental refugees of the disappearing jungle becomes the background knowledge of Yamashita’s novel and offers a deep understanding of the Amazon nature and the Indios. The two great works makes us reflect on the timely themes of globalization and deterritorialization in the worldwide chaos of present day 21st century. The two works of The Tears of the Amazon and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest compare in several aspects. They both deal with the process of deterritorialization which globalization impacts the peripheral regions. However, the documentary and the novel differ in portraying the degree of deterritorialization’s process. The Tears of the Amazon focuses on the Amazon as an area where the affinity their lives have had with their region becomes eliminated. Through the Arc of the Rain Forest starts at a point in which the deterritorization has already occurred. The novel focuses on the inequality of deterritorization. The Amazon Indios experience deterritorization most acutely as they are positioned as marginal in the unequal processes of globalization. It is impossible to embody in the ordinary realism novel the impacts of globalization powers which transform the Amazon jungle into the land of harmful toxic minerals and later destroys it. If the amazing and vulnerable Indios life which adhered to the prototypical human life had seems to us as magic realism in The Tears of the Amazon, what brings about the uncanny of magic realism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is not the Amazon Indio but are the postmodern powers that invade into the Amazon to extort them to the full. The developed and then mutated figures of those with transnational capital and technology who swarmed to the Amazon in order to extort human and material resources are expressed through magic realism. Despite shocking upheaval, Through the Arc of the Rain dreams of reterritorialization, in which characters search for ways to adapt to the transformed reality. If it had been the inflow of transnational cultural powers which had instilled uncanniness into the naïve life experiences of the third world regional society, the social changes and restructuring of locality is developed through the melodrama form in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.

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저자

• Soonju Lee [ 이선주 | 이화여자대학교 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813