V. S. 나이폴의 『미겔 스트리트』를 제국의 수사학으로 읽기
Reading Naipaul’s Miguel Street in the Rhetoric of Empire
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This paper examines the impact of imperialism and colonialism on the people of Trinidad, and the impact of imperialism and colonialism’s effect on the characters in Miguel Street, in particular. Inspired by David Spurr’s The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration, the paper focuses on appropriation and aestheticization, negation and naming, and classification and distinction. This paper reveals how the colonial discourse generates the colonizing and occupying of the third world by Western empires, and also examines the results and effects of colonized people’s minds and behavior. Through the eyes of its young protagonist, Naipaul depicts colonial status in Trinidad through the characters and their dialogues in Miguel Street. The novel reveals poverty, laziness, violence, the frivolous activities of its people, and all the tragic moments that happen on Miguel Street. Not only do most men who live on the street drink, swear, fight and avoid engaging in any profitable jobs, but also most residents of the street want to escape their society. However, their attempts to do so end in failure. The exception is the narrator, who tells us that the only way to live as a modest human being is to escape this doomed society. Naipaul demonstrates in this story that colonized people are still economically, socially and politically suffering from their past, even though they are free from their former colonizers.
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This paper examines the impact of imperialism and colonialism on the people of Trinidad, and the impact of imperialism and colonialism’s effect on the characters in Miguel Street, in particular. Inspired by David Spurr’s The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration, the paper focuses on appropriation and aestheticization, negation and naming, and classification and distinction. This paper reveals how the colonial discourse generates the colonizing and occupying of the third world by Western empires, and also examines the results and effects of colonized people’s minds and behavior. Through the eyes of its young protagonist, Naipaul depicts colonial status in Trinidad through the characters and their dialogues in Miguel Street. The novel reveals poverty, laziness, violence, the frivolous activities of its people, and all the tragic moments that happen on Miguel Street. Not only do most men who live on the street drink, swear, fight and avoid engaging in any profitable jobs, but also most residents of the street want to escape their society. However, their attempts to do so end in failure. The exception is the narrator, who tells us that the only way to live as a modest human being is to escape this doomed society. Naipaul demonstrates in this story that colonized people are still economically, socially and politically suffering from their past, even though they are free from their former colonizers.
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