이야기 소설로 신화와 모순의 경계선 열기: 프랜시스 워시번의 『엘지 이야기』 중심 연구
Opening the Borders of Myth and Paradox in a Story-telling Novel: Elsie's Business by Frances Washburn
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Story-telling is one of the major features of Native American culture. Story-telling novels express the flexible, often paradoxical and dynamic energy of orality by crossing various borders in their text. Frances Washburn's Elsie's Business, one of the well-received Native American story-telling novels, invites the readers to the trans-border open sphere. Composed of episodic fragments of diverse time, space and such genres as murder mysteries, myths, legends and folk-tales, mixed at random in the present tense, Elsie's Business draws our attention to the maltreatment a Native American female has quietly gone through. The use of 'you,' the focal listener of all the stories told by various characters, weakens the border between the fictional individual character 'you' and the communal readers for it reachers the deep, unconscious psyche of the reader whenever 'you' is called. 'You,' remaining unidentified to the readers to the end of the novel while all the fictional characters know 'your' identity, stimulates the readers' curiosity which intensely coheres all diverse kinds of fragments, thus initiating a new aesthetic convergence of literary art. In addition, by revealing that all stories are the mere combination of factual information with fictional imagination, endlessly changing, Washburn exposes the fictionality as well as flexibility of all stories and thus satirizes all fixed myths and borders. The trans-border openness exhorts readers to embrace the planetary community including even non-human creatures as well as all sorts of mankind.
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Story-telling is one of the major features of Native American culture. Story-telling novels express the flexible, often paradoxical and dynamic energy of orality by crossing various borders in their text. Frances Washburn's Elsie's Business, one of the well-received Native American story-telling novels, invites the readers to the trans-border open sphere. Composed of episodic fragments of diverse time, space and such genres as murder mysteries, myths, legends and folk-tales, mixed at random in the present tense, Elsie's Business draws our attention to the maltreatment a Native American female has quietly gone through. The use of 'you,' the focal listener of all the stories told by various characters, weakens the border between the fictional individual character 'you' and the communal readers for it reachers the deep, unconscious psyche of the reader whenever 'you' is called. 'You,' remaining unidentified to the readers to the end of the novel while all the fictional characters know 'your' identity, stimulates the readers' curiosity which intensely coheres all diverse kinds of fragments, thus initiating a new aesthetic convergence of literary art. In addition, by revealing that all stories are the mere combination of factual information with fictional imagination, endlessly changing, Washburn exposes the fictionality as well as flexibility of all stories and thus satirizes all fixed myths and borders. The trans-border openness exhorts readers to embrace the planetary community including even non-human creatures as well as all sorts of mankind.
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