에르나 브로드버의 『마이얼』에 나타난 자메이카 공동체와 마이얼리즘
Jamaican Community and Myalism in Erna Brodber's Myal
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A Jamaican writer, sociologist, and activist Erna Brodber considers writing fiction as one of sociological strategies of understanding a local community. Brodber, who describes social science methodology as the outcome of the act of cleansing and fiction as something of intrinsic worth, twins of the former and the latter continually. As her first novel contributes to the sociology of the black diaspora, the second novel, Myal is her tentative exploration of two enlarged views of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and Afro-Jamaicans. A Jamaican community, which features ‘the half has never been told’, has been overwhelmed by both Caribbean and American present and African past. To reveal the half that has not been told, Brodber explores various Afro-centric religious culture such as Myalism, Myal dance, Kumina, Spirituality, Obeah, super/natural power and so on in her fiction, Myal. Also, she refuses the linear chronology and storyline in existing bildungsroman genre. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze how the main characters, Ella O’Glady and Anita undergo spirit thievery and retrieve their own spirit and the consciousness of the Jamaican community through Myaling in Erna Brodber’s Myal. One is mulatto, Ella who was a victim of the old and the new colonists by the Western imperial powers by being extorted by the British colonial education system and the American white husband. The other is an indigenous woman in Grove Town, Anita who was robbed of her spirit by Mass Levi, former district constable and obeah man, who wanted to recover his masculinity to extort Anita’s youth and sexuality. Ella was healed by Myalist Mass Cyrus; Anita by another Myalist Miss Gatha with the help of all the members of Grove Town community. They would become the new people in the new Jamaican community.
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A Jamaican writer, sociologist, and activist Erna Brodber considers writing fiction as one of sociological strategies of understanding a local community. Brodber, who describes social science methodology as the outcome of the act of cleansing and fiction as something of intrinsic worth, twins of the former and the latter continually. As her first novel contributes to the sociology of the black diaspora, the second novel, Myal is her tentative exploration of two enlarged views of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and Afro-Jamaicans. A Jamaican community, which features ‘the half has never been told’, has been overwhelmed by both Caribbean and American present and African past. To reveal the half that has not been told, Brodber explores various Afro-centric religious culture such as Myalism, Myal dance, Kumina, Spirituality, Obeah, super/natural power and so on in her fiction, Myal. Also, she refuses the linear chronology and storyline in existing bildungsroman genre. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze how the main characters, Ella O’Glady and Anita undergo spirit thievery and retrieve their own spirit and the consciousness of the Jamaican community through Myaling in Erna Brodber’s Myal. One is mulatto, Ella who was a victim of the old and the new colonists by the Western imperial powers by being extorted by the British colonial education system and the American white husband. The other is an indigenous woman in Grove Town, Anita who was robbed of her spirit by Mass Levi, former district constable and obeah man, who wanted to recover his masculinity to extort Anita’s youth and sexuality. Ella was healed by Myalist Mass Cyrus; Anita by another Myalist Miss Gatha with the help of all the members of Grove Town community. They would become the new people in the new Jamaican community.
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