이주와 정주 사이에서 ‘집’ 찾기: 로렌스의 장소론으로 나이폴의 『도착의 신비』 읽기
A Homing Desire in between Routes and Roots: Reading V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival through D. H. Lawrence’s “Spirit of Place”
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V. S. Naipaul’s novels have been usually discussed in the context of the diaspora discourse. Many theorists of diaspora have exposed one-sided emphases of migrancy and hybridity to call into question the essentialized and fixed origin of home. This tendency, however, results in ignoring the significance of the relationship between human and place. Avtar Brah and Sara Ahmed among diaspora theorists quite uniquely argue for the sensuous and geographical nature that home embodies. Interestingly enough, Brah’s and Ahmed’s attempt to foreground home as “the lived experience of a locality” dovetails with Lawrence’s emphasis of “the spirit of place.” In the wide spread of the diaspora discourse, this paper tries to read V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival in the light of D. H. Lawrence’s sense of place. The Enigma of Arrival, written after about 30 years since Naipaul moved from Trinidad to England, records long lists of details of rooting a foreign place, Wiltshire. It is quite surprising to consider that the narrator/author represses and submerges Trinidad as a place below the narrative in his early age famous novel A House for Mr Biswas. The huge gap between his two novels in the sense of place indicates some changes in Naipaul’s sense of place, which show a good example of “a homing desire” of exile; home is not necessarily considered as an essentialized and fixed origin, rather any place can be a home for an exile. A homing desire of exile is no other than the relationship between human and place that Lawrence emphasized. And yet, Lawrence’s sense of place based on his idea of “blood consciousness” reveals that the narrator’s ‘sensuous’ relationship with place in The Enigma of Arrival is still under the influence of his colonialist taste and ideology to idealize the rural England.
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V. S. Naipaul’s novels have been usually discussed in the context of the diaspora discourse. Many theorists of diaspora have exposed one-sided emphases of migrancy and hybridity to call into question the essentialized and fixed origin of home. This tendency, however, results in ignoring the significance of the relationship between human and place. Avtar Brah and Sara Ahmed among diaspora theorists quite uniquely argue for the sensuous and geographical nature that home embodies. Interestingly enough, Brah’s and Ahmed’s attempt to foreground home as “the lived experience of a locality” dovetails with Lawrence’s emphasis of “the spirit of place.” In the wide spread of the diaspora discourse, this paper tries to read V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival in the light of D. H. Lawrence’s sense of place. The Enigma of Arrival, written after about 30 years since Naipaul moved from Trinidad to England, records long lists of details of rooting a foreign place, Wiltshire. It is quite surprising to consider that the narrator/author represses and submerges Trinidad as a place below the narrative in his early age famous novel A House for Mr Biswas. The huge gap between his two novels in the sense of place indicates some changes in Naipaul’s sense of place, which show a good example of “a homing desire” of exile; home is not necessarily considered as an essentialized and fixed origin, rather any place can be a home for an exile. A homing desire of exile is no other than the relationship between human and place that Lawrence emphasized. And yet, Lawrence’s sense of place based on his idea of “blood consciousness” reveals that the narrator’s ‘sensuous’ relationship with place in The Enigma of Arrival is still under the influence of his colonialist taste and ideology to idealize the rural England.
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