어려운 구원: 토니 모리슨의 『재즈』에 나타난 죽음과 사랑
Difficult Redemption: Death and Love in Toni Morrison’s Jazz
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This study examines a strange murder case in Toni Morrison’s Jazz that has received inadequate attention from critics and readers. In the book, a 50-year-old Joe murders his teenage lover, Dorcas, with impunity; nobody actually sees him shoot her, and she refuses to name her killer to give Joe a chance to get away. Her last act is to “love something other than herself so much,” dying for the “other.” At its most extreme, this act is hospitality toward the “absolutely other,” someone Derrida and Levinas both describe as being beyond our knowledge and understanding. Dorcas’s friend Felice, who witnesses Dorcas’s willing death and delivers her last word for Joe, encourages him to engage in a new love relationship with his wife. At the same time, however, her very existence (Felice means “happiness”) makes this difficult reparation and redemption temporary and fragile. The novel’s open ending―the lack of a resolution despite its seemingly happy ending―invites its readers to retell the story, which is Morrison’s way of being hospitable to them.
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This study examines a strange murder case in Toni Morrison’s Jazz that has received inadequate attention from critics and readers. In the book, a 50-year-old Joe murders his teenage lover, Dorcas, with impunity; nobody actually sees him shoot her, and she refuses to name her killer to give Joe a chance to get away. Her last act is to “love something other than herself so much,” dying for the “other.” At its most extreme, this act is hospitality toward the “absolutely other,” someone Derrida and Levinas both describe as being beyond our knowledge and understanding. Dorcas’s friend Felice, who witnesses Dorcas’s willing death and delivers her last word for Joe, encourages him to engage in a new love relationship with his wife. At the same time, however, her very existence (Felice means “happiness”) makes this difficult reparation and redemption temporary and fragile. The novel’s open ending―the lack of a resolution despite its seemingly happy ending―invites its readers to retell the story, which is Morrison’s way of being hospitable to them.
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