오리엔탈 포로 서사에 드러난 자유와 성적 유혹의 협상: 페넬로피 어빈의 『숭고한 노예들』
Negotiating Freedom and Sexual Seduction in Oriental Captivity Narratives: Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves
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Written as an Oriental captivity narrative in which the European protagonists are held hostage by Muslim authorities, Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves(1722) presents the struggle of white slaves pitted against a disparate world of religious and sexual assaults. Recent critics, focusing on the novel’s use of the captives’ distressed body, attempt to label Aubin either as a conformist to conventional gender ideology or a renegade who outlaws sexual normativity. Yet the gender dynamics of Aubin’s captivity narrative is nebulous to say the least, precisely because gender roles and sexual politics are reassigned in the Orient, a liminal space in which the protagonists’ cultural values are called into question. This article investigates the ways in which Aubin translates the seduction plot into what Laura Doyle terms the “liberty plot,” a narrative of freedom and natural birthright that becomes Saxonized, politicized, and racialized. Aubin’s captivity narrative bends the heterosexual norms of the British Empire by displacing European bodies against the backdrop of the Orient. Aubin thus taps into a metropolitan dialogue of transnational crossing and cultural encounter that ultimately helps Britons and Europeans imagine themselves as commanding sexual autonomy and liberty.
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Written as an Oriental captivity narrative in which the European protagonists are held hostage by Muslim authorities, Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves(1722) presents the struggle of white slaves pitted against a disparate world of religious and sexual assaults. Recent critics, focusing on the novel’s use of the captives’ distressed body, attempt to label Aubin either as a conformist to conventional gender ideology or a renegade who outlaws sexual normativity. Yet the gender dynamics of Aubin’s captivity narrative is nebulous to say the least, precisely because gender roles and sexual politics are reassigned in the Orient, a liminal space in which the protagonists’ cultural values are called into question. This article investigates the ways in which Aubin translates the seduction plot into what Laura Doyle terms the “liberty plot,” a narrative of freedom and natural birthright that becomes Saxonized, politicized, and racialized. Aubin’s captivity narrative bends the heterosexual norms of the British Empire by displacing European bodies against the backdrop of the Orient. Aubin thus taps into a metropolitan dialogue of transnational crossing and cultural encounter that ultimately helps Britons and Europeans imagine themselves as commanding sexual autonomy and liberty.
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