실패한 이주민의 꿈: 끄레브꾀르의 『미국 농부의 편지』
The Portrait of a Failed American: Crvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer
- 발행
- 2009
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- 서울대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- UCI
- G704+INS000000909-ART001348297
- 원문등록
- 2009-06-15
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개념
키워드
Crvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, narrative hybridity, contemplative farmer, pastoralism, agrarianism, Crvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, narrative hybridity, contemplative farmer, pastoralism, agrarianism
초록
This paper revisits Crvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer in terms of its narrative hybridity and the concomitant failure of establishing the figure of American farmer as an archetypal American. Up until now, most of the critics did not pay full-fledged attention to the narrative complexity of Crvecoeur’s Letters, predominantly capitalizing on the cultural as well as political significance of the third letter, “What is American?”; they often let slide the ideological implication of the freeholding farmer, let alone the strategic placement of the so-called “Nantucket Letters” in the middle of narrative structure. Agrarian pastoral of the Pennsylvanian farm precariously extends its figurative power over the ample narrative descriptions of the oceanic community in Nantucket via the critical lenses of the contemplative narrator-hero, ultimately resulting in the narrative debacle that could not curb the stark reality of slavery in Charles Town and the bewilderment over the unexpected thrust of political choice in front of impending war with English monarchy. Contemplative farmer’s benevolent governance as a “monarcho-anarchist” over the independent, market-free farm yard falls far