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God Help the Child continues Toni Morrison’s focus on the most vulnerable characters and expands upon violence related to characters’ experiences that they painfully undergo in their childhood. Because of these traumatic experiences, characters in this novel cannot form positive relationships but end up destroying themselves and others. However, Morrison tries to find possible resolutions for these damaged children. This paper aims to analyze Morrison’s perspectives on child abuse through examining the strategy to transform how these characters can overcome their trauma and gain the power to rebuild their relationship. In order to analyze Morrison’s novel, the body of this paper consists of three parts. I will explore through textual evidence the way how children can be easy targets of violence by analyzing the structure of society and the reason why sexual assault is particularly frequent. In the next chapter, I will unpack the character Bride and her trauma with affect theory to scrutinize how traumatic experience can be turned into power to destroy others. Lastly, by tracking the relation of Rain and Bride, I will verify how traumatized children can build an supportive alliance.

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Ⅰ. 들어가며
Ⅱ. 호모 사케르로서 어린이들과 성폭력
Ⅲ. 브라이드의 외상과 부정적인 방향으로의 정동
Ⅳ. 외상의 회복과 성장의 가능성
Ⅴ. 결론
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• 조현경 [ Hyun-Kyung Jo | 이화여자대학교 대학원생 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820