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Major issues brought forward in this study explore the possibility of understanding of law through literature. Borrowing Nussbaum’s concept of ‘literary judge’ and White’s idea of ‘legal imagination’, the study emphasizes the importance of teaching good literature as a route to create imaginative literary judges. For the practice of mock court as well as English proficiency, Walter Dean Myer’s Monster can be a good literary piece since the whole text of this young adult literature deals with a series of court trials in which the protagonist Steve, a Black young adult of Harlem, stands his trials for the reason of his participation in a robbery of convenience store. The postmodern narrative creates an ambiguity making it difficult to determine if the protagonist participated in the crime and thus the question about justice and authenticity of court decree remains unanswered. The novel concludes questioning law as an ideological apparatus to help Steve form his identity. The implication of the novel is that justice and identity formation are only possible through conscientious choice and decisions based on ethical consciousness and not through law.

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키워드

저자

• 유제분 [ Jeboon Yu | 부산대 ]

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