카릴 필립스의 『마지막 항해』에 나타난 흑인 여성 이민자의 런던
Black Female Immigrant’s London in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage
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This essay examines the implications of gender on the representation of post-war London in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage. Leila, a young woman of the Windrush generation who leaves an anonymous Caribbean island to come to London with her feckless husband and a newborn son, is competent enough to navigate the urban space of London and produce intelligent observations on the racially divided city. And yet, she appears to be a passive and voiceless character who becomes increasingly isolated in the private sphere, thus failing to reterritorize the city. In part, Leila’s failure is a byproduct of the gendered and racialized understanding of London that metonymically identifies the city with a white female body. The conception of London as an alluring white female body that desires black men might serve as an empowering fantasy for male immigrants—such as Sam Selvon’s ‘boys’ in The Lonely Londoners—because it tempts them to explore London and become ‘men.’ However, the conflation of London and a deceptive white female significantly limits Leila’s London life as it makes her perceive the city as a threat to her family. Depicting Leila’s grim life in London, The Final Passage brings to the fore the gendered nature of diasporic experience and spatial imaginings.
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This essay examines the implications of gender on the representation of post-war London in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage. Leila, a young woman of the Windrush generation who leaves an anonymous Caribbean island to come to London with her feckless husband and a newborn son, is competent enough to navigate the urban space of London and produce intelligent observations on the racially divided city. And yet, she appears to be a passive and voiceless character who becomes increasingly isolated in the private sphere, thus failing to reterritorize the city. In part, Leila’s failure is a byproduct of the gendered and racialized understanding of London that metonymically identifies the city with a white female body. The conception of London as an alluring white female body that desires black men might serve as an empowering fantasy for male immigrants—such as Sam Selvon’s ‘boys’ in The Lonely Londoners—because it tempts them to explore London and become ‘men.’ However, the conflation of London and a deceptive white female significantly limits Leila’s London life as it makes her perceive the city as a threat to her family. Depicting Leila’s grim life in London, The Final Passage brings to the fore the gendered nature of diasporic experience and spatial imaginings.
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