「오 예스」에 나타난 낯선 이방인들의 공동체
A New Strangers’ Community in “O Yes”
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Alienated as she is, an outsider is expected to challenge the stable and privileged community. However, in Tillie Olsen’s short story “O Yes,” the social roles assumed by black and white people are reversed. While attending the baptism of her best friend, Parialee, a white girl, Carol is unwillingly positioned as an outsider in a black-dominated church. Carol, being confused and helpless, experiences a temporary loss of consciousness and is moved into an underwater fantasy world, where Alva appears as a skilled factory worker. While Parry adjusts herself to “sorting,” and finds her way, Carol suffers from the trauma, and so lingers on the border between childhood and adulthood, which represents idealistic equality and realistic separation respectively. Carol, metaphorically baptized, awakes to her reality, which produces and maintains power structures based on sex, race, and class. Carol, however, may not be empowered enough to carry out her duty as a “new stranger,” who questions the ‘natural,’ and fights against prejudice and injustice in society. Olsen seems to preach that the task of the privileged is to live each moment as “new strangers” to make the world a ‘righteous’ place. Righteousness becomes reality by the “new strangers,” who remember and admit they are as vulnerable as others, trying to live an ethical and political life.
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Alienated as she is, an outsider is expected to challenge the stable and privileged community. However, in Tillie Olsen’s short story “O Yes,” the social roles assumed by black and white people are reversed. While attending the baptism of her best friend, Parialee, a white girl, Carol is unwillingly positioned as an outsider in a black-dominated church. Carol, being confused and helpless, experiences a temporary loss of consciousness and is moved into an underwater fantasy world, where Alva appears as a skilled factory worker. While Parry adjusts herself to “sorting,” and finds her way, Carol suffers from the trauma, and so lingers on the border between childhood and adulthood, which represents idealistic equality and realistic separation respectively. Carol, metaphorically baptized, awakes to her reality, which produces and maintains power structures based on sex, race, and class. Carol, however, may not be empowered enough to carry out her duty as a “new stranger,” who questions the ‘natural,’ and fights against prejudice and injustice in society. Olsen seems to preach that the task of the privileged is to live each moment as “new strangers” to make the world a ‘righteous’ place. Righteousness becomes reality by the “new strangers,” who remember and admit they are as vulnerable as others, trying to live an ethical and political life.
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