제인의 ‘여성-되기’: 들뢰즈와 가타리로 읽은 『제인 에어』
Jane's ‘Becoming-Woman’: Reading Jane Eyre in View of Deleuze/Guattari's Nomadology
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The purpose of this paper is to restore the value of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre as a subversive feminist novel that has been devalued in the wake of Post-colonial criticism. Jane Eyre had been admired as a ‘Feminist canon’ for the reason that Jane, the heroine in Jane Eyre, as an orphan, led an independent life. But recently Jane Eyre has been heavily under attack for the way of representation of Bertha, as a Creole woman, and Jane’s inheritance from her uncle. So, it could be argued that Jane’s achievement is very much tainted by her involvement in the colonial legacy. This study questions and challenges the critical positions taken by major critics such as Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, and Gayatri Spivak who share the view that Jane’s duplicitious subjectivity becomes united after her marriage and subsequently being a contented domestic woman. The point that I would like to make is that Jane's self is still divided with her multilayered desires. That is, despite that she is married and somewhat domesticated, her will to take the flight from patriarchal authority is never extinct. I mainly depend on Gilles Deleuze/Flix Guattari's main concepts discussed in their Nomadology such as ‘flight,’ ‘becoming,’ ‘becoming-woman,’ and ‘deterritorialization.’ By doing so, I highlight Jane’s taking the flight from the territory controlled by patriarchal ideology. Her rebellion and independence will be scrutinized. I would argue that Jane dares to textualize her subversive experiences in the form of autobiography. Women’s writing, especially the act of writing women’s autobiography was regarded as a taboo in the Victorian age. Jane is making a nomad space which can’t be contained by Rochester, an embodiment of patriarchal authority. Jane’s taking the ‘flight’ is an indicative of her continuous ‘becoming.’ Reading Jane Eyre in view of Deleuze/Guattari’s Nomadology, focusing on Jane's nomadic desire, is not only valid but also rewarding. Jane is far from being domesticated. Rather she is waging a war for millions of women like her within the stronghold of patriarchy. That is her achievement
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The purpose of this paper is to restore the value of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre as a subversive feminist novel that has been devalued in the wake of Post-colonial criticism. Jane Eyre had been admired as a ‘Feminist canon’ for the reason that Jane, the heroine in Jane Eyre, as an orphan, led an independent life. But recently Jane Eyre has been heavily under attack for the way of representation of Bertha, as a Creole woman, and Jane’s inheritance from her uncle. So, it could be argued that Jane’s achievement is very much tainted by her involvement in the colonial legacy. This study questions and challenges the critical positions taken by major critics such as Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, and Gayatri Spivak who share the view that Jane’s duplicitious subjectivity becomes united after her marriage and subsequently being a contented domestic woman. The point that I would like to make is that Jane's self is still divided with her multilayered desires. That is, despite that she is married and somewhat domesticated, her will to take the flight from patriarchal authority is never extinct. I mainly depend on Gilles Deleuze/Flix Guattari's main concepts discussed in their Nomadology such as ‘flight,’ ‘becoming,’ ‘becoming-woman,’ and ‘deterritorialization.’ By doing so, I highlight Jane’s taking the flight from the territory controlled by patriarchal ideology. Her rebellion and independence will be scrutinized. I would argue that Jane dares to textualize her subversive experiences in the form of autobiography. Women’s writing, especially the act of writing women’s autobiography was regarded as a taboo in the Victorian age. Jane is making a nomad space which can’t be contained by Rochester, an embodiment of patriarchal authority. Jane’s taking the ‘flight’ is an indicative of her continuous ‘becoming.’ Reading Jane Eyre in view of Deleuze/Guattari’s Nomadology, focusing on Jane's nomadic desire, is not only valid but also rewarding. Jane is far from being domesticated. Rather she is waging a war for millions of women like her within the stronghold of patriarchy. That is her achievement
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