마마데이의 의미 탈주: 『비 내리는 산으로 가는 길』 중심 연구
Momaday's Flight from Meaning: The Way to Rainy Mountain
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N. Scott Momaday in The Way to Rainy Mountain attempts to offer Native Americans’ creative identity. He exposes existing concepts and images of indigenous Americans as fantasies distorted and frozen by caucasian mythical desires, thus inviting the readers to realize the fantasies as the very cause of tremendous misunderstanding, conflict and psychic dissociation. Throughout the whole text, he continuously erases and disintegrates the fantasies, leading the readers to get liberated. The unique juxtaposition of three voices with some petrified pictures and empty spaces inserted in his text discloses the denatured subjectivity of the fantasies. Awakened to and animated with sound indigenous and tribal spirit, his readers, even including non-Americans and non-Indians, are induced to pursue a healthy encounter with global others. To prove the validity of this argument, I will briefly introduce and apply the post-modern theories of the fantasy discussed in French psycho-analysts Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s L’Anti-Oedipe and the continental philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s The Plague of Fantasies and Looking Awry. The paradox of desire that the object a is an object that can be perceived only by a gaze “distorted” by desire, an object that does not exist for an “objective” gaze, will lucidly illuminate the heart of Momaday’s text, which will eventually emerge as the collection of multiple, evanescent and meaningless stains, immobilized and devitalized.
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N. Scott Momaday in The Way to Rainy Mountain attempts to offer Native Americans’ creative identity. He exposes existing concepts and images of indigenous Americans as fantasies distorted and frozen by caucasian mythical desires, thus inviting the readers to realize the fantasies as the very cause of tremendous misunderstanding, conflict and psychic dissociation. Throughout the whole text, he continuously erases and disintegrates the fantasies, leading the readers to get liberated. The unique juxtaposition of three voices with some petrified pictures and empty spaces inserted in his text discloses the denatured subjectivity of the fantasies. Awakened to and animated with sound indigenous and tribal spirit, his readers, even including non-Americans and non-Indians, are induced to pursue a healthy encounter with global others. To prove the validity of this argument, I will briefly introduce and apply the post-modern theories of the fantasy discussed in French psycho-analysts Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s L’Anti-Oedipe and the continental philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s The Plague of Fantasies and Looking Awry. The paradox of desire that the object a is an object that can be perceived only by a gaze “distorted” by desire, an object that does not exist for an “objective” gaze, will lucidly illuminate the heart of Momaday’s text, which will eventually emerge as the collection of multiple, evanescent and meaningless stains, immobilized and devitalized.
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