침묵 당한 서발턴 여성을 위한 말하기: 프란시스 워시번의 엘지 이야기와 아메리카 인디언 구술전통
Storytelling for the Silenced Subaltern: Frances Washburn’s Elsie’s Business and the American Indian Oral Tradition
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This paper examines the repressive structure that suppresses the voice of Elsie, a Native American woman from a lower socioeconomic class, through the lens of Gayatri Spivak’s notion of the subaltern. The relevance of Spivak’s own concept to my study lies in the way she depicts the double oppression of native women in colonial India in which they are deprived of agency and the ability to speak for themselves. In France Washburn’s Elsie’s Business, the structure of oppression takes the form of Elsie’s incapacity for self-representation. In this regard, this paper explores how the storytelling technique rooted in the American Indian oral tradition preserves the complexity and heterogeneity of the Other and fosters an ontological bond between Elsie, the spoken, and “you,” the listener(s). Further, this paper will investigate how Elsie’s Business, through its unconventional protagonist and stark reflection of the reality faced by Native American women, confronts and counters prevailing literary stereotypes as well as dominant ideological discourses.
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This paper examines the repressive structure that suppresses the voice of Elsie, a Native American woman from a lower socioeconomic class, through the lens of Gayatri Spivak’s notion of the subaltern. The relevance of Spivak’s own concept to my study lies in the way she depicts the double oppression of native women in colonial India in which they are deprived of agency and the ability to speak for themselves. In France Washburn’s Elsie’s Business, the structure of oppression takes the form of Elsie’s incapacity for self-representation. In this regard, this paper explores how the storytelling technique rooted in the American Indian oral tradition preserves the complexity and heterogeneity of the Other and fosters an ontological bond between Elsie, the spoken, and “you,” the listener(s). Further, this paper will investigate how Elsie’s Business, through its unconventional protagonist and stark reflection of the reality faced by Native American women, confronts and counters prevailing literary stereotypes as well as dominant ideological discourses.
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