영국 헤리티지 산업에 대한 문화적 개입과 수정 —V.S. 나이폴의 『당혹스러운 도착』
The Cultural Engagement and Revision of the English Heritage Industry in V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival
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This paper explores the way Naipaul critically engages in the cultural politics of 1980s in England which is represented by the Heritage Industry through analysing how The Enigma of Arrival describes the English country house and the rural landscape. The Heritage Industry, supported strategically by Thatcher government, encouraged the English people to search “Englishness” through consuming cultural goods concerning “national heritages.” As a response to the post-imperial decline and the rush of immigrants from the former British colonies, the Heritage Industry reveals the conservative defensive psychology of the English society. The narrator of the novel, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean, settles in the Edwardian manor, the ancient heart of England, and observes the English landlord to find out that he is still living in the imperial past. Naipaul's narrator realizes the morbid aspects of his landlord who is hypnotized by the images of the past and lost the capacity for creative changes. Naipaul suggests the English society confront the post-imperial realities from the perspective of “change” and “flux” instead of being obsessed by the idealized past. Through The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul criticizes the cultural stream of the Heritage Industry and claims his own territory as an immigrant in the post-imperial English society.
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This paper explores the way Naipaul critically engages in the cultural politics of 1980s in England which is represented by the Heritage Industry through analysing how The Enigma of Arrival describes the English country house and the rural landscape. The Heritage Industry, supported strategically by Thatcher government, encouraged the English people to search “Englishness” through consuming cultural goods concerning “national heritages.” As a response to the post-imperial decline and the rush of immigrants from the former British colonies, the Heritage Industry reveals the conservative defensive psychology of the English society. The narrator of the novel, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean, settles in the Edwardian manor, the ancient heart of England, and observes the English landlord to find out that he is still living in the imperial past. Naipaul's narrator realizes the morbid aspects of his landlord who is hypnotized by the images of the past and lost the capacity for creative changes. Naipaul suggests the English society confront the post-imperial realities from the perspective of “change” and “flux” instead of being obsessed by the idealized past. Through The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul criticizes the cultural stream of the Heritage Industry and claims his own territory as an immigrant in the post-imperial English society.
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