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This paper aims at probing into Maria Irene Fornes’s three strategies for reevaluating Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer and colonizer, in Terra Incognita. The first strategy is to induce readers/audiences to compare Columbus with Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator by giving basic information on the Prince at the beginning of the play. The second strategy is to dramatize Columbus’s merits and demerits embodied by demented Burt. She dramatizes Columbus as a skillful sailor with his plentiful knowledge in earth science and his indomitable spirit, a scrupulous businessman who amassed great wealth due to the contact with the West Indies, and an incompetent administrator who misruled the West Indies in the process of colonization. The third strategy is to juxtapose Columbus with Steve’s quotation of Barolomé de las Casas’s History of the Indies to accuse the Spaniards’ atrocities and to expose indirectly the religious hypocrisy of Columbus known as a devout Catholic. His acquiescence in the atrocities against the indigenous people in the West Indies reveals that his avarice for money and gold was much greater than his faith to convert them to Catholocism. Therefore, Fornes succeeds in reevaluating Columbus as a skillful sailor, a scrupulous businessman, an incompetent administrator, and a hypocritical Catholic, connecting him with a Portuguese Prince Henry and a Spanish Las Casas.

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I. 서론
II. 항해왕자 헨리와 콜럼버스 간의 비교 유도
III. 버트를 통해 구현된 콜럼버스의 공과 재조명
IV. 스티브의 인용을 통한 가톨릭교도로서의 콜럼버스 비판
V. 결론
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• 황규철 [ Hwang, Kyu-Cheol | 중앙대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810