포스트콜로니얼 문학과 풍자 —V. S. 나이폴의 『신비로운 안마사』와 『엘비라의 선거권』에 나타난 양날의 풍자
Postcolonial Writings and Satire: The double-edged Satire in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira
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The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira, the two of V.S. Naipaul’s early works published during 1950s, are appreciated as the ones which depict the Caribbean colonial society from the satirical perspectives. The virtue of these novels is that they are rich literary report on the colonial modernity in terms that they focus on the ways the individuals of colonial society respond to and interact with the changes caused by Western modernity which was transplanted into the multiracial and multicultural Caribbean society during 1940s and 1950s. They, however, have been condemned by not a few critics for the ruthlessness of the satire Naipaul employed to describe the absurdity of the Caribbean colonial society. The aim of this paper is to examine the Naipaulian satire from the point of view that its focus lies in revealing the confusion and discordance of the colonial experiences caused by Western modernity including capitalism and democracy as political institutions. Naipaul’s emphasis lies in criticizing the results caused by the irresponsibility and immorality of European colonialism, not in jeering the crudeness of colonial society. The ironical situations these two novels show seem to be created from backwardness of colonial society superficially but, in the deeper level, they display the Naipaulian double-edged satire whose perspective is to consider transplanted colonial modernity from the Western world as an irony in itself.
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The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira, the two of V.S. Naipaul’s early works published during 1950s, are appreciated as the ones which depict the Caribbean colonial society from the satirical perspectives. The virtue of these novels is that they are rich literary report on the colonial modernity in terms that they focus on the ways the individuals of colonial society respond to and interact with the changes caused by Western modernity which was transplanted into the multiracial and multicultural Caribbean society during 1940s and 1950s. They, however, have been condemned by not a few critics for the ruthlessness of the satire Naipaul employed to describe the absurdity of the Caribbean colonial society. The aim of this paper is to examine the Naipaulian satire from the point of view that its focus lies in revealing the confusion and discordance of the colonial experiences caused by Western modernity including capitalism and democracy as political institutions. Naipaul’s emphasis lies in criticizing the results caused by the irresponsibility and immorality of European colonialism, not in jeering the crudeness of colonial society. The ironical situations these two novels show seem to be created from backwardness of colonial society superficially but, in the deeper level, they display the Naipaulian double-edged satire whose perspective is to consider transplanted colonial modernity from the Western world as an irony in itself.
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