『빌러비드』의 다층적 서술기법 연구
A Study on Narrative Techniques of Toni Morrison's Beloved
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This paper aims to explore representative narrative techniques in Toni Morrison's Beloved, which contributed to making the story of slavery and its survivors the great novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Beloved treats slavery as a collective experience of African Americans, addressing issues such as history, motherhood, recovery of self, and the relationship between individuals and the community. These universal themes are built on unique narrative techniques rooted in black traditional culture. First, Morrison creates a world of magical realism, where magic is naturally combined with reality, based on the traditional beliefs and worldview of black people. In this ‘real unreal world,’ Beloved, the ghost of Sethe's dead daughter, serves as a guide to the truth of the past by stimulating characters to confront the nightmare of slavery. Another technique is the narration method of “circling the subject” around the main event, representing characters' painful rememories. The narration alternates between the past and the present, dealing with characters' fragmented memories and their current psychological state under the repression of past memories. Lastly, Beloved includes various kinds of storytelling by characters with the omnipresent narrator supplementing them. The storytelling is based on ‘call and response,’ the black oral tradition that involves other characters and readers as listeners. This kind of storytelling is very effective in helping characters understand one another, heal their trauma, and eventually recover their sense of self, with readers gaining a comprehensive understanding of the truth of the past.
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This paper aims to explore representative narrative techniques in Toni Morrison's Beloved, which contributed to making the story of slavery and its survivors the great novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Beloved treats slavery as a collective experience of African Americans, addressing issues such as history, motherhood, recovery of self, and the relationship between individuals and the community. These universal themes are built on unique narrative techniques rooted in black traditional culture. First, Morrison creates a world of magical realism, where magic is naturally combined with reality, based on the traditional beliefs and worldview of black people. In this ‘real unreal world,’ Beloved, the ghost of Sethe's dead daughter, serves as a guide to the truth of the past by stimulating characters to confront the nightmare of slavery. Another technique is the narration method of “circling the subject” around the main event, representing characters' painful rememories. The narration alternates between the past and the present, dealing with characters' fragmented memories and their current psychological state under the repression of past memories. Lastly, Beloved includes various kinds of storytelling by characters with the omnipresent narrator supplementing them. The storytelling is based on ‘call and response,’ the black oral tradition that involves other characters and readers as listeners. This kind of storytelling is very effective in helping characters understand one another, heal their trauma, and eventually recover their sense of self, with readers gaining a comprehensive understanding of the truth of the past.
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