댄지 세나(Danzy Senna)의 『코캐이시어』(Caucasia): 패싱과 인종의 재개념화
Danzy Senna’s Caucasia: Reconceptualization of “Passing” and Race
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This paper examines how the concept of race and “passing” is formulated and conceptualized in Danzy Senna's Caucasia. It explores the complex phenomenon of race appearing when a passer crosses the color-line. Involuntarily put in situations of “passing” and living in Caucasia, Berdie Lee, the mixed-blood narrator, comes to realize the construction of the concept of race and how it is produced and disseminated in the American society. What Senna underscores for us in this novel is the need to forgo the rigid concept of race that has distorted the American race politics and to embrace a multiracial and multicultural America by establishing a reconceptualization of “passing” and race. This includes the deconstructing of the monolithic racial politics of the White/Black opposition by moving beyond the color-line to acknowledge and accept the diverse identities of racial and ethnic minorities.
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This paper examines how the concept of race and “passing” is formulated and conceptualized in Danzy Senna's Caucasia. It explores the complex phenomenon of race appearing when a passer crosses the color-line. Involuntarily put in situations of “passing” and living in Caucasia, Berdie Lee, the mixed-blood narrator, comes to realize the construction of the concept of race and how it is produced and disseminated in the American society. What Senna underscores for us in this novel is the need to forgo the rigid concept of race that has distorted the American race politics and to embrace a multiracial and multicultural America by establishing a reconceptualization of “passing” and race. This includes the deconstructing of the monolithic racial politics of the White/Black opposition by moving beyond the color-line to acknowledge and accept the diverse identities of racial and ethnic minorities.
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