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Dessa Rose by Shirley Anne Williams is one of the neo-slave narratives which revisit slavery and revise the traditional slave narratives as well as the master narratives of slavery. This paper attempts to read Dessa Rose in terms of a powerful counter narrative of a black slave girl. In the first “The Darky” section Dessa disrupts the master narrative dominated by the racist white male writer Adam Nehemiah who wants to “read” her, that is, to find out the cause of slave uprising through interviews with her. Instead of giving what Nehemiah wants, Dessa tells who she is by repetitiously mentioning memories of her beloved husband Kaine. In examining the driving forces which enable Dessa to endure in horrible whipping and brutal circumstances of confinement and finally to escape for freedom, the author puts emphasis more on Dessa’s assertion of herself as a “mother” against the master narrative, which deprives female slaves of motherhood, than on the romantic love of Dessa and her husband Kaine. In particular, Dessa's search for freedom and female subjectivity is completed by her bonding with a white woman, Rufel, and the nurturing of black community. In this respect the liberating relationship dismantles the racial and sexual boundaries; it is a way of fulfilling a black female slave subjectivity. Unlike the master narrative voices of Nehemiah and Rufel, who are eventually consumed by the omniscient narrator, Dessa completes the counter narrative of a black female slave subject by having her grandchildren dictate her narrative as well as acquiring her own narrative voice.

목차

I. 들어가며
 II. 주인서사의 파열
 III. 흑인여자노예와 모성
 IV. 인종과 성의 경계를 넘어서서
 V. 나가며
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키워드

저자

• 이승은 [ Lee Seung-Eun | 가천대학교 ]

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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