현재 위치
Home
“And then there was history” : Traveling Time in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
-
- 발행기관
- 미국소설학회 바로가기
-
- 간행물
- 미국소설 KCI 등재 바로가기
-
- 통권
- 제25권 1호 (2018.03)바로가기
-
- 페이지
- pp.49-75
-
- 저자
-
- 언어
- 영어(ENG)
-
- URL
- https://www.earticle.net/Article/A327040
※ 원문제공기관과의 협약기간이 종료되어 열람이 제한될 수 있습니다.
원문정보
초록
- 영어
- Critical evaluations on Octavia Butler’s most recognized fiction Kindred (1979) have accumulated at an incredible pace over the years, the novel duly endorsed as the author’s provocative engagement with race through her innovative morphing of different literary traditions and genres. In particular, much of the readings that trace the trajectory of the African American female protagonist Dana Franklin’s embodied time travels to the antebellum South rightly profess that the narrative device of time travel enables both the protagonist and her readers a direct encounter with American slavery, and the importance of historical knowledge and connection to the past in this process. In its defiance of some reified understanding of history, time travel can be revisionist than conservative. With the fascinating challenge of transforming history, time travel not only prompts an understanding of oneself in the continuum of others in the past, present, and future, but opens up history as processual and as a source of reproduction. In this essay, I concentrate on the significant import of time travel in Kindred, how Butler inserts it not simply as an apparatus or mechanism for temporal and spatial movement that pushes the plot and action, but offers it up as a radical narrative possibility as well as unattainability. In Kindred, there is no technological explication for the absence of mediation between the past and the present. I explore how the compelling potential of time travel, the possibility of “gambling against history,” is mustered up and expelled at the same time, specifically by tracing Dana’s perception and interaction with her slaveholding white male ancestor Rufus Weylin, and more prominently, her fraught relationship to her black maternal ancestor Alice Greenwood.
목차
I
II
III
Works Cited
Abstract
키워드
Octavia Butler Kindred neo-slave narrative speculative fiction time travel race black womanhood저자
간행물 정보
발행기관
-
- 발행기관명
- 미국소설학회 [The American Fiction Association of Korea]
- 설립연도
- 1989
- 분야
- 인문학>영어와문학
- 소개
- 본 학회는 마크 트웨인을 중심으로 한 미국 문학 및 문화에 관한 학슬 활동의 증진을 목적으로 한다
간행물
-
- 간행물명
- 미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]
- 간기
- 연3회
- pISSN
- 1738-5784
- 수록기간
- 1991~2020
- 등재여부
- KCI 등재
- 십진분류
- KDC 843 DDC 813
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / 미국소설 제25권 1호
피인용수 : 0건 (자료제공 : 네이버학술정보)
함께 이용한 논문 이 논문을 다운로드한 분들이 이용한 다른 논문입니다.
출처 : 네이버학술정보
0개의 논문이 장바구니에 담겼습니다.