전쟁, 트라우마, 섹슈얼리티: 토니 모리슨의 『집』
War, Trauma, and Sexuality: Toni Morrison's Home
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Toni Morrison's Home portrays both the trauma experienced by a Korean War veteran as well as the segregation and oppression of African Americans during the post-war American society of the 1950s. The protagonist, Frank Money, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Korea. Unable to come to terms with the loss of his best friends in the war, he resists returning to his hometown, Lotus, Georgia. He realizes that the racial integration that he experienced in the American army was an illusion as racial segregation and oppression continues to permeate American society at large. However, he is forced to return home because his only sister, Cee, falls deathly ill due to a white doctor's botched gynecological experimentation. The novel delineates the process in which the psychologically fragmented Frank reconstructs the memory of his deprived childhood, the loss of parental love, and the atrocious violence that he both witnessed and committed during the war. At the center of his painful memory are his feelings of guilt for killing a Korean girl who aroused his sexual desire. By acknowledging his wrongdoing in the war, he is able to recover from his psychological fragmentation and suffering, and thereby become a moral and ethical subject.
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Toni Morrison's Home portrays both the trauma experienced by a Korean War veteran as well as the segregation and oppression of African Americans during the post-war American society of the 1950s. The protagonist, Frank Money, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Korea. Unable to come to terms with the loss of his best friends in the war, he resists returning to his hometown, Lotus, Georgia. He realizes that the racial integration that he experienced in the American army was an illusion as racial segregation and oppression continues to permeate American society at large. However, he is forced to return home because his only sister, Cee, falls deathly ill due to a white doctor's botched gynecological experimentation. The novel delineates the process in which the psychologically fragmented Frank reconstructs the memory of his deprived childhood, the loss of parental love, and the atrocious violence that he both witnessed and committed during the war. At the center of his painful memory are his feelings of guilt for killing a Korean girl who aroused his sexual desire. By acknowledging his wrongdoing in the war, he is able to recover from his psychological fragmentation and suffering, and thereby become a moral and ethical subject.
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