히스테리 남성인물 재현의 의미 : 필립 로스의『울분』
The Representation of Hysterical Jewish Man in Philip Roth's Indignation
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This paper attempts to examine the representation of the hysterical Jewish man in Roth's Indignation, considering the context of discourses on Jewish masculinity. In this novel, the protagonist's father is a powerless Jewish male character, who is a working class immigrant man. He is shown to have hysterical obsessive fear and anxiety about the safety of his only son, who is about to achieve manhood in the main society. His character reminds of the stereotype of the Jewish men in history which culminates in the racist discourse of the late 19th century. This image is suggested in the perspective of his wife who links her husband's hysterical symptom to his innate temperament inherited from his family. In a sense, her perspective represents the assimilated Jews of 1950s who accepted the dominant values of American society. But her point of view is countered through not only the plot but also the narrative voice which controls this novel. The narrative voice and plot are constructed to make sure that his father's fear and anxiety is not groundless. In this sense his hysterical symptom is shown to criticise the restriction and exclusion of the American society in 1950s.
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This paper attempts to examine the representation of the hysterical Jewish man in Roth's Indignation, considering the context of discourses on Jewish masculinity. In this novel, the protagonist's father is a powerless Jewish male character, who is a working class immigrant man. He is shown to have hysterical obsessive fear and anxiety about the safety of his only son, who is about to achieve manhood in the main society. His character reminds of the stereotype of the Jewish men in history which culminates in the racist discourse of the late 19th century. This image is suggested in the perspective of his wife who links her husband's hysterical symptom to his innate temperament inherited from his family. In a sense, her perspective represents the assimilated Jews of 1950s who accepted the dominant values of American society. But her point of view is countered through not only the plot but also the narrative voice which controls this novel. The narrative voice and plot are constructed to make sure that his father's fear and anxiety is not groundless. In this sense his hysterical symptom is shown to criticise the restriction and exclusion of the American society in 1950s.
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