Forgetting to Remember: Hawthorne’s Anxieties and His Color-ful Women
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose writing career coincided with the period of so-called American Renaissance, made his own literary responses to the contemporary search for national and literary identities. His notable obsession with the Puritan past is an effort to come to terms with a legacy of memories and find ways to express his will to America as a nation and to its national literature. Hawthorne’s will to nationhood is, however, cut across by the contradictory desire to remember its Puritan origins by simultaneously forgetting the violence occurred in its formation. His tales and fictions are charged with eloquent silences and haunting shadows of the forgotten. His probing into complexities of human nature and realities of national history was often obscured by his contradictory desire for “forgetting to remember.” His conservative political stance is usually blamed for his failure to remember certain inconvenient questions about women and racial others. In this vein, this paper examines some of his color-ful or racialized female characters such as Faith from “Young Goodman Brown” and Beatrice from “Rappaccini’s Daughter” as literary reflections of the author’s anxieties about others, encroaching upon his desire for white male power and undercutting his attempt to remember the Puritan past.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose writing career coincided with the period of so-called American Renaissance, made his own literary responses to the contemporary search for national and literary identities. His notable obsession with the Puritan past is an effort to come to terms with a legacy of memories and find ways to express his will to America as a nation and to its national literature. Hawthorne’s will to nationhood is, however, cut across by the contradictory desire to remember its Puritan origins by simultaneously forgetting the violence occurred in its formation. His tales and fictions are charged with eloquent silences and haunting shadows of the forgotten. His probing into complexities of human nature and realities of national history was often obscured by his contradictory desire for “forgetting to remember.” His conservative political stance is usually blamed for his failure to remember certain inconvenient questions about women and racial others. In this vein, this paper examines some of his color-ful or racialized female characters such as Faith from “Young Goodman Brown” and Beatrice from “Rappaccini’s Daughter” as literary reflections of the author’s anxieties about others, encroaching upon his desire for white male power and undercutting his attempt to remember the Puritan past.
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