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This paper is to read Claire Keegan’s short story, Foster (2010), which is displayed in a timeless rural Ireland from a daughter’s perspective. Unlike contemporary Irish women writers who directly disclose women’s plight and inferiority in the family, Keegan only shows women and girls as they are, focusing on the quality of seeing rather than on criticizing a gendered and patriarchal society. To do this, Keegan uses the first-person present tense or the simultaneous narration which has the first-person narrator relate the events as they happen without any judgment and criticism. This narrative mode highlights the moment of change or realization, which is considered as an epiphany whose meaning in Keegan’s Foster is secularized by describing the narrator’s normal life, instead of the meaning of the “spiritual manifestation.” For instance, the well the narrator visits symbolizes her growth by drinking clean water and deciding not to say anything about her drowning. This moment of change leads the narrator to learn how to behave, what to do, and furthermore to cut across the gender divide. Also, the effect of the open-ending in Foster underscores the narrator’s development, after learning the virtues of respect and resistance from the foster family, the Kinsellas.

목차

I. 들어가며: 키건의 단편소설
II. 키건의 보여주기 서사: 킨셀라 가족
III. 일인칭 현재 시점으로 바라보는 어른의 세계
IV. 우물과 에피퍼니
V. 나가며: 열린 결말과 변화 가능성
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• 박선화 [ Park, Sunhwa | 건국대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810