탈식민담론 이해의 주안점: 마리즈 꽁데의 『누가 셀러니어의 목을 쳤는가?』를 중심으로

Abstract

Jung-Sook KimMaryse Cond 's postcolonial ethics refutes the paradigms of exoticism and victimization. Instead, Cond 's fictional world tries to achieve what Said suggests by "worlding" of the hybridity of cultures, races, and sexes, and thereby prepare a third space where the author can capture the truly global dimension of human experience. This paper reads Cond 's 2004 work, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? in terms of the author's postcolonial "ethical universal." Structured in a fantastical narrative style, Celanire elicits the hybridity of various worlds, the natural and the supernatural, the real and the unreal, the known and the unknown and these aspects coexist simultaneously and carry democratic equal weight through the whole story.Cond 's postcolonial worlding of multicultural assets in the novel consists of Celanire's marriage with the French colonial director, her playful but eventually meaningful institutionalization of brothels where African women make love to European men, and the subversive hybridity of interracial criminals, French, Chinese, Peruvian and Creols, who collaborate in slashing the infant's throat for human sacrifice. And Cond achieves a technical postcolonial hybridity thru intertextual utilization of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Most of all, at the end of the novel, when Celanire, "the monster" whose throat has been sutured to her body by the irrigation of chicken blood, declares to her French husband that she wants to become a good mother, the reader is made reassured of the dream and irony of Cond 's post colonial fantasy.