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This paper examines Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt focusing on its possibility as a resistant text to power relations. She creates Binh, a Vietnamese homosexual cook, who is working at GertrudeStein’s salon house in Paris in the late 1920s and the early 1930s. He is the ‘Other,’ experiencing alienation and exclusion, and silenced and appropriated by the ‘Self,’ in various power relations such as colonialism, orientalism, racialization, heterosexuality, and discourse control. But Truong gives him extraordinary insight which penetrates the nature of power relations. She also provides him with a fluent inner voice which illustrates his sharp criticism of the power relations and the ‘Self.’ Further, Binh demonstrates his capability of powerful resistance and subversion by breaking the binarisms of the ‘Self’/the ‘Other, superior/inferior, civilized/savage, intelligent/foolish, sacred/contaminated, and sexually pure/ sexually aberrant. Truong lets Binh, a subaltern of color, not only ‘speak’ but also ‘reappropriate’ and ‘rewrite’ his life and story, stolen by the ‘Self.’ Truong establishes the possibility of border-crossing diaspora and its values, such as fluidity, openness, both/and, neither/nor, and hybridity, as an alternative world view and identity. Thus Truong creates a kind of counter-narrative, showing postmodern, postcolonial, and cosmopolitan traits in the novel.

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I. 서론
 II. 본론
  1. 다양한 권력구조와 빈의 타자성
  2. 권력관계에 대한 비판적 통찰과 빈의 저항성
  3. 권력관계 너머 탈경계적 가능성을 향해
 III. 결론
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저자

• 민진영 [ Jinyoung Min | 안산대 ]

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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