Toni Morrison’s A Mercy deals with the cure of smallpox and several characters’ traumas. Vaark, Rebekka, and Sorrow suffer from smallpox, so Lina and the blacksmith use different treatments from their complex ethnic heritage to cure them. Despite of their different approaches to the disease, they use similar talking cure practices. Morrison also emphasizes the recovery of the two traumatic female characters, Sorrow and Florens. Sorrow who suffers from various psychic disorders overcomes her madness to find a way for her second child’s survival. Florens, who has an unforgettable abandonment trauma, and has a devastating affair with the blacksmith writes her way into clarity by inscribing mysterious letters in a room of Vaark’s grand house with a nail. Depicting the complex treatment of psychic and physical diseases and trauma, Morrison emphasizes that the complete survivals of main characters lie in the different but mixed treatment of root doctor-like characters, the realization of motherhood, and the acquisition of clarity by writing unspeakable trauma.
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키워드
토니 모리슨『자비』저널 쓰기 치료대화 치료동종요법모성Toni MorrisonA MercyJournal Writing Curetalking cureHomeopathyMotherhood
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]