인종적 타자의 매혹 —로런스의『께짤코아틀』에 그려진 인종과 성
The Lure of the Racial Other: Race and Sexuality in D. H. Lawrence’s Quetzalcoatl
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Kate Burns, a disillusioned Irish woman in Quetzalcoatl, has alternating feelings of fear, repulsion, oppression, compassion, and fascination vis-à-vis Mexican people. Together, these feelings are constitutive of a psychic process in which an imaginary appropriation of the other takes place. In this process white subjectivity represents or reconstructs the dark race precisely as its other. At the same time, Kate’s feelings register her anxious recognition of the resistant, unappropriated being of the dark people: their true ‘otherness,’ or what Zˇ izˇek calls “the excess of existence over representation.” The otherness, frequently racial and sexual, evokes mixed feelings in the white subject. Kate’s at once amorous and aggressive response to Ramón’s body provides a case in point. Kate’s emotional undulation is considerably mitigated in The Plumed Serpent, the revised version of the novel in which the theme of ‘blood-mixing’ is pushed to the ultimate point. Yet the interracial marriage resolves neither the racial nor the ontologico-sexual issues raised in the first version. Kate is still attracted to Ramón in his sagacious sensuality but goes on to get married to Cipriano, a pure Indian, only to find his mechanical masculinity ever unpalatable. This shows, not just Lawrence’s wilful commitment to the ‘blood-mixing’ theme, but perhaps his lingering taboo against miscegenation as well. Changes in the plot entail those in the narrative voice. In Quetzalcoatl, Owen, a spectatorial and gossipy character, frequently competes for narration with the fully participant third-person narrator. In The Plumed Serpent, the third-person narrator becomes predominant, now attempting with greater confidence to present the reality of the racial other immediately to European readership. While such immediacy is illusional, narrative insistence on it implies a struggle to displace racial stereotypes and offer an experiential understanding of the other.
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Kate Burns, a disillusioned Irish woman in Quetzalcoatl, has alternating feelings of fear, repulsion, oppression, compassion, and fascination vis-à-vis Mexican people. Together, these feelings are constitutive of a psychic process in which an imaginary appropriation of the other takes place. In this process white subjectivity represents or reconstructs the dark race precisely as its other. At the same time, Kate’s feelings register her anxious recognition of the resistant, unappropriated being of the dark people: their true ‘otherness,’ or what Zˇ izˇek calls “the excess of existence over representation.” The otherness, frequently racial and sexual, evokes mixed feelings in the white subject. Kate’s at once amorous and aggressive response to Ramón’s body provides a case in point. Kate’s emotional undulation is considerably mitigated in The Plumed Serpent, the revised version of the novel in which the theme of ‘blood-mixing’ is pushed to the ultimate point. Yet the interracial marriage resolves neither the racial nor the ontologico-sexual issues raised in the first version. Kate is still attracted to Ramón in his sagacious sensuality but goes on to get married to Cipriano, a pure Indian, only to find his mechanical masculinity ever unpalatable. This shows, not just Lawrence’s wilful commitment to the ‘blood-mixing’ theme, but perhaps his lingering taboo against miscegenation as well. Changes in the plot entail those in the narrative voice. In Quetzalcoatl, Owen, a spectatorial and gossipy character, frequently competes for narration with the fully participant third-person narrator. In The Plumed Serpent, the third-person narrator becomes predominant, now attempting with greater confidence to present the reality of the racial other immediately to European readership. While such immediacy is illusional, narrative insistence on it implies a struggle to displace racial stereotypes and offer an experiential understanding of the other.
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