Subversive Laughter to Colonial Authority and Gender Norms: The Comic in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M.
0
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
In Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Irish people are depicted following stereotyped images delivering a comic tone to the stories. Set in the rural area of west Ireland, the comedy of the stories mainly revolves around boisterous uproars of Irishmen. Yeates, as a resident magistrate, represents English law and order; however, his authority as an officer is ridiculed in ruckuses raised by Irish people who often indulge in drinking, deceiving, bragging and violation of laws. As Yeates is a delegate of the English government, his being a target of laughter connotes subversiveness to colonial power. Besides, women characters, including Yeates’s English wife Philippa, do not follow the Victorian code of womanhood. Rather, they seem to be more energetic and stronger than men. They often control and dominate male figures including Yeates. Crossing the gender boundary, women characters become resistant to the norms of Victorian society. Rebellious laughter coming from challenging authority and gender norms is also a significant element to exhibit that poverty-stricken Irish people do not lose their vital force. It is imperative for them to keep their vitality to survive under colonial rules. Accordingly, the laughter which implies subversiveness to imperialist power and gender code becomes the means of survival for the Irish.
Abstract
In Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Irish people are depicted following stereotyped images delivering a comic tone to the stories. Set in the rural area of west Ireland, the comedy of the stories mainly revolves around boisterous uproars of Irishmen. Yeates, as a resident magistrate, represents English law and order; however, his authority as an officer is ridiculed in ruckuses raised by Irish people who often indulge in drinking, deceiving, bragging and violation of laws. As Yeates is a delegate of the English government, his being a target of laughter connotes subversiveness to colonial power. Besides, women characters, including Yeates’s English wife Philippa, do not follow the Victorian code of womanhood. Rather, they seem to be more energetic and stronger than men. They often control and dominate male figures including Yeates. Crossing the gender boundary, women characters become resistant to the norms of Victorian society. Rebellious laughter coming from challenging authority and gender norms is also a significant element to exhibit that poverty-stricken Irish people do not lose their vital force. It is imperative for them to keep their vitality to survive under colonial rules. Accordingly, the laughter which implies subversiveness to imperialist power and gender code becomes the means of survival for the Irish.
참고문헌 (20)
- Cahalan, James, "The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers", pp.58~72 (1996), UP of Florida
- Cahalan, James, "The Irish Novel: A Critical History" (1988), Twayne
- Chen, Bi-ling, "De-mystifying the Family Romance: A Feminist Reading of Somerville and Ross’s The Big House of Inver", Notes on Modern Irish Literature, 10, pp.17~25 (1998)
- Cronin, John, "Somerville and Ross" (1972), Bucknell UP
- Crossman, Virginia, "The Resident Magistrate as Colonial Officer: Addison, Somerville and Ross", Irish Studies Review, 8(1), pp.23~33 (2000)
- Devlin, Joseph, "The End of the Hunt: Somerville and Ross’s Irish R.M", The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 24(1), pp.23~50 (1998)
- Foster, R. F, "The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland" (1989), Oxford UP
- Hall, E Wayne, "Landscape as Frame in The Real Charlotte", New Hibernia Review, 3, pp.96~115 (1999)
- Kee, Robert, "Ireland: A History" (1980), Weidenfeld and Nicholson Let
- Krause, David, "The Profane Book of Irish Comedy" (1982), Cornell UP
- Lyons, F. S. L, "The Twilight of the Big House", Ariel, 1(3), pp.110~123 (1970)
- McMahon, Sean, "John Bull’s Other Ireland: Consideration of The Real Charlotte by Somerville and Ross", Eire-Ireland, 3, pp.119~135 (1968)
- Mercier, Vivian, "The Irish Comic Tradition" (1962), Clarendon P
- Murphy, Brenda, "The Treachery of Law’: Reading the Political Synge", Colby Quarterly, 28, pp.45~51 (1992)
- Oakman, Anne, "Sitting on ‘The Outer Skin’: Somerville and Ross’s Through Connemara in a Governess Cart as a Coded Stratum of Linguistic", Feminist ‘Union’ Ideals, 2004, pp.39(1), 110~135
- Orel, Harold, "English Literature in Translation: 1880-1920. 30", pp.17~25 (1920)
- Somerville, Edith, "Some Experiences of an Irish R" (1998), J. S. Sanders
- Waters, Maureen, "The Comic Irishman" (1984), State U of New York P
- Weeks, Anne Owens, "Irish Women Writers: An Uncharted Tradition" (1991), UP of Kentucky
- Wilson, Steve, "Journeys Westward: The Complicated Irish West in Somerville & Ross’s ‘Matchbox’ and ‘An Irish Problem", CEA Critic, 73(3), pp.89~104 (2011)