Négritude, as the social movement initiated by Francophone colonial writers and intellectuals in the 1930s, sought to debunk the longstanding myth of ‘blackness’ that had been invented and propagated in order to justify the histories of slave trade and colonial rule. Though Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire, the co-founders of Négritude, shared the agenda of decolonizing the mind and rebuilding black consciousness, their means to achieve it were not identical. While one had nostalgia for a ‘pure’ and ‘authentic’ African culture of the pre-colonial past, the other accepted the given condition of colonial hybridity as a point of departure for anticolonial resistance. This essay examines how Césaire put his political theory of Négritude into literary practice in A Tempest, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s colonial romance The Tempest. For Césaire, Shakespeare was not simply the Bard of English literature but also an icon of Western cultural hegemony that served to rationalize the unequal power relations between colonizer and colonized. Césaire’s writing back to the representative Western canon from an Afro-Caribbean perspective had both aesthetic and ideological purpose. By making ‘the imperial canon’ a site of intercultural dialogue, by using the English text and the French language in the non-European context, Césaire suggested that appropriation as well as rejection can be a means of cultural resistance. Further, Césaire’s challenging experiment in A Tempest provided a viable model of cultural hybridity for his succeeding postcolonial critics like Frants Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha.
목차
I. Césaire and Négritude in the Caribbean Context II. Shakespeare’s Caliban in The Tempest III. Caliban’s Rebirth in A Tempest IV. Césaire’s Legacies on Postcolonial Criticism Works Cited [Abstract]
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.