카리브계 이민작가 자메이카 킨케이드의 탈식민적 (재)해석의 정치학: 주변부 시선으로 제1세계 독자에게 말걸기
Caribbean Immigrant Writer Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonial Politics of (Re)Interpretation: Talking back to the Metropolitan Reader from the Margins
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Jamaica Kincaid, a US immigrant black writer from the Anglophone Caribbean (Antigua), has created postcolonial texts in that she attempts to make more visible the relation of unequal power between the (post)colonial “margins” and the so-called metropolitan “centers,” as well as that between the mainstream and the minorities within the US with the goal of ending it. She especially provides, in her long provocative essay A Small Place, postcolonial critique and (re)interpretations on a discourse of tourism that has merely represented the Caribbean as paradise and a discourse of colonialism that has privileged the West and whiteness. What appears to be the most provocative aspect of the essay is the author's use of the second person singular pronoun “you” as a narrative strategy to convey her critique of English colonialism, the Caribbean tourism, and Antigua's neo-colonial government. The narrator speaks directly to the reader/tourist while defining this “you” as a tourist, as North American, as white. The readers feel that they are personally identified as one of such and feel defensive by the narrator's angry attacks to their notions and behaviors. Yet Kincaid urges them to go beyond their initial defensive postures and recognize their privileged place of power through accepting her interpretations about the implications of the Caribbean tourism and their roles in various post-/neo-/colonial systems of power, present and past.
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Jamaica Kincaid, a US immigrant black writer from the Anglophone Caribbean (Antigua), has created postcolonial texts in that she attempts to make more visible the relation of unequal power between the (post)colonial “margins” and the so-called metropolitan “centers,” as well as that between the mainstream and the minorities within the US with the goal of ending it. She especially provides, in her long provocative essay A Small Place, postcolonial critique and (re)interpretations on a discourse of tourism that has merely represented the Caribbean as paradise and a discourse of colonialism that has privileged the West and whiteness. What appears to be the most provocative aspect of the essay is the author's use of the second person singular pronoun “you” as a narrative strategy to convey her critique of English colonialism, the Caribbean tourism, and Antigua's neo-colonial government. The narrator speaks directly to the reader/tourist while defining this “you” as a tourist, as North American, as white. The readers feel that they are personally identified as one of such and feel defensive by the narrator's angry attacks to their notions and behaviors. Yet Kincaid urges them to go beyond their initial defensive postures and recognize their privileged place of power through accepting her interpretations about the implications of the Caribbean tourism and their roles in various post-/neo-/colonial systems of power, present and past.
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