프레더릭 더글라스의 흑인서사와 백인 담론의 모방/전복의 문제
Frederick Douglass's African American Narrative and the Problem of Imitation/Subversion of White Discourse
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This article aims to investigate Frederick Douglass's narrative and how it imitates and subverts his contemporary hegemonic white discourse in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. I also discuss two revisions of the autobiography, that is, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. Especially, this essay interrogates his imitation/subversion of his contemporary “self-made man discourse,” “Christianity discourse” and “Enlightenment discourse.” As the process of his achieving “literacy” shows, it is inevitable that he imitates his contemporary hegemonic discourse. The autobiography demonstrates the pattern of Franklinian self-made man and Christian language while reverberating the tradition of American Enlightenment represented in the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, he signifies and transforms his contemporary hegemonic white discourse. Thus he transforms the self-made man discourse into the linguistic instrument for his searching for black identity. Douglass signifies Christianity discourse and exposes its alliance with the horrible realities of the black. He also transforms the white's Enlightenment discourse into the intellectual tool for black emancipation.
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This article aims to investigate Frederick Douglass's narrative and how it imitates and subverts his contemporary hegemonic white discourse in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. I also discuss two revisions of the autobiography, that is, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. Especially, this essay interrogates his imitation/subversion of his contemporary “self-made man discourse,” “Christianity discourse” and “Enlightenment discourse.” As the process of his achieving “literacy” shows, it is inevitable that he imitates his contemporary hegemonic discourse. The autobiography demonstrates the pattern of Franklinian self-made man and Christian language while reverberating the tradition of American Enlightenment represented in the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, he signifies and transforms his contemporary hegemonic white discourse. Thus he transforms the self-made man discourse into the linguistic instrument for his searching for black identity. Douglass signifies Christianity discourse and exposes its alliance with the horrible realities of the black. He also transforms the white's Enlightenment discourse into the intellectual tool for black emancipation.
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