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This study discusses Toni Morrison's critical perspectives on African Americans' anti-communalism in Song of Solomon, Sula, and Paradise. Morrison shows that materialism and paternalism, egotistic individualism, sexual exclusivism, and racial-sexual chauvinism in the black community serve as abusive obstacles to the founding and maintenance of community based on love, obstacles to the fraternal love of community, and obstacles to the love for fellow human beings. In Song of Solomon, Morrison’s perspective puts her critical focus on the patriarchal violence of Macon Dead who oppresses his family members and on his capitalistic materialism that extorts rent from his poor tenants. In Sula, Morrison’s critical focus is not only on Sula’s self-centered individualism that destroys family hierarchy and community rules but also on the community that denies Sula’s essence and dishonors her. Morrison shows that both Sula and the community go astray from African American communalism, and that each destroys the other. In Paradise, her critical focus is on the community that defines itself by disdain for racial-sexual others and by acts of violence against them. She argues that the community has copied the whites' capitalistic values, paternalism, sexual exclusivism, and racial chauvinism. She shows that the copied society doesn't share other genders’, classes’, races' identities and consciousness with its racial community. Finally, through her critical perspectives, Morrison stresses that African Americans should form and maintain communities where people understand each other and accept racial, cultural, sexual differences. More specifically, her ideal communalism means that all people, no matter what their racial, sexual, and/or cultural backgrounds may be, have their unique identities, and should be accepted in the equilibrium of multiple subjectivities.

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I. 머리말
 II. 중산층들의 물질주의적 가치관과 가부장적 권위
 III. 자의적 삶과 배타적 공동체
 IV. 인종적ㆍ성적 차별주의와 배타주의
 V. 맺음말
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• 이영철 [ Young Cheol Lee | 전주대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820