Earticle

초록

영어

Cuba is crucial to understand The Old Man and the Sea and the three terrains of ecopolitics, racial politics, and gender politics are necessary to discuss the Cuban aspects of the novel. As a part of supplementing and deepening those terrains, the perspective of tricontinentalism is proposed in this paper. Being suggested by Robert Young as a reformulation of postcolonialism, tricontinentalism calls us to explore the dynamic power latent in the non-western geographical spaces of Asia, Africa, and Latin America/the Caribbean and excavate the other epistemes and values sustained in the interconnected tricontinental cultures. To read The Old Man and the Sea through such tricontinental perspective means focusing on the African aspects embedded in the Latin American/the Caribbean. This Africanness has revived in the santéria. Maintaining Cuban indigenous culture and life, santéria is a syncretization of European Catholicism and African faith or myth of Yoruba. To Cuban indigenous mulatto people, the Gulf Stream is a blessed sea where male and female personifications of gods and goddesses exist and always protect them as well as their ancestors as when they sailed from Africa to Latin America/the Caribbean a very long time ago. In contrast, the protagonist Santiago generalizes the Gulf Stream as feminine, inconsistent, and precarious and regards it as a problematic object necessary to be rationally controlled and never asks the sea gods’ and goddesses’ favor. Even in Santiago’s ecological ethics of letting him speak to the fish as a friend or brother, the persistent human-centrism of a European white man is highlighted in his own strong will against sea creatures and sea gods. His dreaming of lions playing in a beach of Africa also exposes his ethnic nationalism by presenting Africa as a romanticized virgin land entirely separated from the violent colonial histories. This reading of The Old Man and the Sea, can make visible the other sentiments, epistemes, and values of Cuban indigenous or mulatto syncretic cultures compared with those of Santiago and/or the cosmopolitan Hemingway.

목차

I. 들어가는 말 : 왜 쿠바인가?
 II. 멕시코만류와 고기잡이 : 생태정치
 III. 산티아고의 에스닉 내셔널리즘 : 인종정치
 IV. 쿠바 남성들의 세계 : 젠더정치
 V. 나가는 말 : 쿠바의 심오한 아프리카성(Africaness)과 미국소설
 인용문헌
 Abstract

키워드

저자

• 태혜숙 [ Heasook Tae | 대구가톨릭대 ]

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