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This paper examines Beloved through the issue of the representation of Africa in terms of searching for the new value orientation in our era of globalization. To do that, first, the novel is not confined to the category of Black Woman Novel but expanded into the horizon of cultural negotiations between the continents of Africa and America. Then, Morrison's aspect of employing the African cosmologies as the interpretive and aesthetic strategies of her novel is noticed and then the possibilities of desirable communities are elaborated from the position of African-American women. The major symbol of (West and Central) African cosmologies is ‘a cross within a circle' which is inscribed under Sethe's Africa-born mother Ma'am's bosom. It speaks as Africa to Denver and Beloved as well as Sethe and makes all of them remember and worship African ancestors. Thus, the meaning of Africanness represented in Beloved can be defined and enlarged in the perspective of promoting intercontinental alliances against rigid racial boundaries and imagining the future of global communities based upon equality and respect.

목차

I. 서론 : 왜 '아프리카의 재현'인가?
 II. 4백년간 침묵된 중간항로 이야기를 통해 본 '아프리카'
 III. 19세기 초 중반 미국 노예농장에서의 '아프리카적인 것'
 IV. 1870년대 신시내티 12번지와 아프리카성
 V 결론 : 아메리카 대륙에서 ‘아프리카적인 것’의 의미
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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