마가렛 앳우드의 『수잔나 무디의 일기』에 재현된 경계와 기호계: 분열된 여성 주체와 캐나다의 야생 자연
Borderline States and the Semiotic in Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Split Female Subjectivity and Canadian Wilderness
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This paper explores the way in which Canadian identity and split female subjectivity in Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie represents borderline states and the semiotic that substantiate dualities in Atwood’s poetry. While drawing upon Susanna Moodie, a 19th century emigrant Englishwoman, and her response to the Canadian landscape, the collection challenges the binary oppositions that regulate social and cultural behaviors. In so doing, Atwood presents wilderness where Moodie undergoes both self-division and an experience of harmonious natural order. Susanna Moodie’s construction of identity in relation to the wilderness, the threatening otherness, is a figure for Atwood’s interpretation of Canadian identity within the context of its immigration history and culture. The wilderness, as I would argue, could be interpreted in terms of Kristva’s concept of the abject in which the self experiences the boundary-subject. According to Kristeva, the abject, closely associated with the maternal body, resurfaces, triggering what may be described as the permeable boundaries between egos. In the collection, Moodie’s duality is a metaphor for Atwood’s aesthetics which resists fixing positions or structures in its violent duality.
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This paper explores the way in which Canadian identity and split female subjectivity in Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie represents borderline states and the semiotic that substantiate dualities in Atwood’s poetry. While drawing upon Susanna Moodie, a 19th century emigrant Englishwoman, and her response to the Canadian landscape, the collection challenges the binary oppositions that regulate social and cultural behaviors. In so doing, Atwood presents wilderness where Moodie undergoes both self-division and an experience of harmonious natural order. Susanna Moodie’s construction of identity in relation to the wilderness, the threatening otherness, is a figure for Atwood’s interpretation of Canadian identity within the context of its immigration history and culture. The wilderness, as I would argue, could be interpreted in terms of Kristva’s concept of the abject in which the self experiences the boundary-subject. According to Kristeva, the abject, closely associated with the maternal body, resurfaces, triggering what may be described as the permeable boundaries between egos. In the collection, Moodie’s duality is a metaphor for Atwood’s aesthetics which resists fixing positions or structures in its violent duality.
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