다시 쓰는 영국사 : 안드레아 레비의 『작은 섬』에 나타난 ‘집’의 기억
The History of Britain Rewritten: Memories of ‘Home’ in Andrea Levy’s Small Island
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Against the backdrop of the Windrush scandal in 2018, this essay examines the representation of the Windrush generation and the emergence of multicultural Britain in Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004). A historical novel, Small Island describes the arrival of the Windrush generation in 1948 and preceding events as recollected by four first-person narrators—a Jamaican immigrant couple and a white English couple. The essay analyzes the narratives of two male characters to juxtapose two different concepts of ‘home’ that serves as an allegory of the nation in Small Island. Levy’s novel foregrounds the intertwined history of colonialism and hybridization of home(land) through Gilbert’s narrative, which counters Bernard’s self-serving and self-contradictory narrative that, in favor of homogenous space, envisions the arrival of immigrants as a ‘cause’ of social problems. Hortense’s narrative, on the other hand, rewrites the male-centered history of twentieth-century Britain by bringing to the fore the role of Black female immigrants in the shaping of post-war Britain. In conclusion, Small Island rewrites the history of modern Britain in terms of gender as well as race by bringing together diverging memories of ‘home.’
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Against the backdrop of the Windrush scandal in 2018, this essay examines the representation of the Windrush generation and the emergence of multicultural Britain in Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004). A historical novel, Small Island describes the arrival of the Windrush generation in 1948 and preceding events as recollected by four first-person narrators—a Jamaican immigrant couple and a white English couple. The essay analyzes the narratives of two male characters to juxtapose two different concepts of ‘home’ that serves as an allegory of the nation in Small Island. Levy’s novel foregrounds the intertwined history of colonialism and hybridization of home(land) through Gilbert’s narrative, which counters Bernard’s self-serving and self-contradictory narrative that, in favor of homogenous space, envisions the arrival of immigrants as a ‘cause’ of social problems. Hortense’s narrative, on the other hand, rewrites the male-centered history of twentieth-century Britain by bringing to the fore the role of Black female immigrants in the shaping of post-war Britain. In conclusion, Small Island rewrites the history of modern Britain in terms of gender as well as race by bringing together diverging memories of ‘home.’
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