『노인들의 회합』: 흑인 주체성과 저항을 재현하는 시그니파잉 텍스트
A Gathering of Old Men: A Signifying Text Representing Black Subjectivity and Resistance
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This study examines the way in which Ernest Gaines employs in his novel, A Gathering of Old Men, the trope of Signifying to represent the resistance of the old black men against the whites. Signifying is a literary trope African Americans have used to overcome a situation in which they are subject to becoming a victim. Gaines depicts the residual racial tension still prevalent in the region of Louisiana as the vestige of slavery; He investigates the racial hierarchical status that has remained unaltered in the members of the community, and offers a new vision sparked by the old men who stand up against the brutal treatment of the whites. Gaines draws upon the trope of signifying by which the weak and old men verbally play on what they are addressed by whites and slowly defeat the whites who still live in the old world. Their verbal confrontation with the Sheriff, the representative of law, and physical standing up against the Cajun help them triumph over what they have believed to be wrong, resulting in reclaiming their manhood and subjectivity as well as envisaging a new era with possible racial harmony.
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This study examines the way in which Ernest Gaines employs in his novel, A Gathering of Old Men, the trope of Signifying to represent the resistance of the old black men against the whites. Signifying is a literary trope African Americans have used to overcome a situation in which they are subject to becoming a victim. Gaines depicts the residual racial tension still prevalent in the region of Louisiana as the vestige of slavery; He investigates the racial hierarchical status that has remained unaltered in the members of the community, and offers a new vision sparked by the old men who stand up against the brutal treatment of the whites. Gaines draws upon the trope of signifying by which the weak and old men verbally play on what they are addressed by whites and slowly defeat the whites who still live in the old world. Their verbal confrontation with the Sheriff, the representative of law, and physical standing up against the Cajun help them triumph over what they have believed to be wrong, resulting in reclaiming their manhood and subjectivity as well as envisaging a new era with possible racial harmony.
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