역사 다시 쓰기—『눈 먼 암살자』에 나타난 주체성 회복 전략
Rewriting the History: The Restoration of Subjectivity in The Blind Assassin
- 발행
- 2014 등록이 논문은 발행 시점을 확인하지 못해 원문 등록일을 적었습니다. KCI가 2005~2008년에 옛 논문을 몰아서 올린 탓에, 그 시기 등록분은 발행보다 평균 3~5년 늦습니다. 실제 발행연도는 더 이를 수 있습니다.
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- DOI
- 10.35771/engdoi.2014.27.3.010
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개념
키워드
Margaret Atwood, Survival, The Blind Assassin, Power Relationship, Critical Writing, Historical Identity and Subjectivity, Rewriting, Margaret Atwood, Survival, The Blind Assassin, Power Relationship, Critical Writing, Historical Identity and Subjectivity, Rewriting
초록
The object of this paper is to examine resistance against the ruling ideology as a means of true survival in The Blind Assassin of Margaret Atwood (1939-), the iconic Canadian writer. In The Blind Assassin (2000), Atwood shows a more true way of survival through Iris who creates her own history in the process of raising her voice and forming her identity. Especially, Atwood uses straightforward language to unveil the faces of women who have been traumatized by submitting to the culture codes of a patriarchal system. This unveiling shows how women have been exploited by, and excluded from, the discussion of Western culture. The Canadian society as Atwood describes it is reminiscent of a Foucauldian society of surveillance and also has attributed as a British colony and economically weak country relative to its southern neighbor the USA, as described in Survival. Iris refuses to be stuck within such social boundaries, as she attempts to recognize and estimate her limitations. After her sister’s suicide, Iris begins to recognize how blind she was and begins to write a memoir to fix her distorted life. Her memoir is a “left-handed book” that contains multiple narrations and uncertain t