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This paper explores Philip Roth’s unique interweaving of personal and historical narratives in his later fiction, particularly focusing on his autobiographical information couched in his “American Trilogy” (American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain). Foregrounding the Vietnamese War, the Cold War, and racism and feminism deeply saturated into personal daily lives in contemporary America, Roth crisscrosses the grains of contemporary American history. His singular way of representing the shattered lives of middle-class Jewish families in connection with grand historical narratives is often explained as a postmodern narrative strategy by critics as well as readers. With this understanding, however, this paper tries to critically distance away from Roth’s utilizing of his own autobiographical indignation toward certain events and people in his apparently fictional representation of individual lives fragmented by grand historical events. Particularly, his anger against his ex-wife and her exposé of their broken marriage might be understood as a direct narrative desire propelling the main storylines of I Married a Communist and The Human Stain. Though this privatization of history for personal outburst of private indignation might be explained away as a narrative strategy, Roth’s staunch conservatism and anti-feminism cannot be explained.

목차

I. 들어가며
 II. 『미국의 목가』
 III. 『나는 공산주의자와 결혼했다』
 IV. 『인간의 오점』
 V. 나가며
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저자

• 유정완 [ Jung-wan Yu | 경희대학교 ]

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