『아메리칸 사이코』와 백인 남성 위기담론의 역설
The Paradox of “White Male Crisis” in American Psycho
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This paper aims to explore the cultural concept of “white male crisis” and its impact on Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. By ideologically re-defining the American white male as a “new minority” group assaulted by women, immigrants, and non-Caucasian citizens, a number of white men have claimed that they are the most persecuted group in the US. American Psycho has been largely regarded, in both popular and academic fields, as a work that manifests this cultural phenonenon. Contrary to the general consensus, this paper is based upon the preposition that this work actually debunks the problematic of white male crisis by revealing its ideological limitation. This is most penchant in the concept of white male as an Other-ized group. Not only does the novel show that the grouping of white male is an attempt to ideologically transform the crisis of subject to the crisis of white male, but it also implies that the category is, in itself, an identity that can be constituted only as a form of negativity against non-white and non-male identities, and thus it lacks its own positive characteristics.
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This paper aims to explore the cultural concept of “white male crisis” and its impact on Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. By ideologically re-defining the American white male as a “new minority” group assaulted by women, immigrants, and non-Caucasian citizens, a number of white men have claimed that they are the most persecuted group in the US. American Psycho has been largely regarded, in both popular and academic fields, as a work that manifests this cultural phenonenon. Contrary to the general consensus, this paper is based upon the preposition that this work actually debunks the problematic of white male crisis by revealing its ideological limitation. This is most penchant in the concept of white male as an Other-ized group. Not only does the novel show that the grouping of white male is an attempt to ideologically transform the crisis of subject to the crisis of white male, but it also implies that the category is, in itself, an identity that can be constituted only as a form of negativity against non-white and non-male identities, and thus it lacks its own positive characteristics.
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