영국성과 역사에 대한 사색: 『습지』를 다시 읽으며
Contemplation on Englishness and History: Re-reading Waterland
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Followed by global consideration and in-/external argument, the UK declared that she would cease to be a part of the EU after 43 years as a self-recognised European country. This paper reads Graham Swift’s Waterland, which conveys English historical contemplation, to gain contextual clues for understanding of the current situation―Brexit―not with the intention of defining it. Swift is a member of the after-war generation and embodies ‘genuine Englishness’ as an ‘Anglo-English’ writer. His novel Waterland represents historically retrospective Britain of the 1980s and contemplates interrelation between History and Literature. The English give emphasis to historically great ‘values’ linked to the continuity, and the past that Waterland possesses underlines the historical continuity to the present. In Waterland, the past is hovered over and highlighted through Tom’s English historical perception, partly nostalgic redirection to Englishness. Swift’s narrative manifests the need of renegotiation of the sense of continuity and offers ‘telling stories’ to enlighten his people through self-reflexive and historiographical anatomy. The reason I re-read Waterland on the threshold of Brexit is that it tells stories of the [English]past from Tom Crick, a synecdoche of the modern ‘English’, that is, an embodiment of individual Englishness, with its glory and ugliness behind the historical pride. Brexit seems to express one of the ways for pursuing the past, and on its base lies the Englishness. The Englishness covers isolationism, choleric complacence, scepticism, cynicism, and so on. In a sense, the sloshiness of ‘waterland’ in the text seems like a part of the inescapable English identity.
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Followed by global consideration and in-/external argument, the UK declared that she would cease to be a part of the EU after 43 years as a self-recognised European country. This paper reads Graham Swift’s Waterland, which conveys English historical contemplation, to gain contextual clues for understanding of the current situation―Brexit―not with the intention of defining it. Swift is a member of the after-war generation and embodies ‘genuine Englishness’ as an ‘Anglo-English’ writer. His novel Waterland represents historically retrospective Britain of the 1980s and contemplates interrelation between History and Literature. The English give emphasis to historically great ‘values’ linked to the continuity, and the past that Waterland possesses underlines the historical continuity to the present. In Waterland, the past is hovered over and highlighted through Tom’s English historical perception, partly nostalgic redirection to Englishness. Swift’s narrative manifests the need of renegotiation of the sense of continuity and offers ‘telling stories’ to enlighten his people through self-reflexive and historiographical anatomy. The reason I re-read Waterland on the threshold of Brexit is that it tells stories of the [English]past from Tom Crick, a synecdoche of the modern ‘English’, that is, an embodiment of individual Englishness, with its glory and ugliness behind the historical pride. Brexit seems to express one of the ways for pursuing the past, and on its base lies the Englishness. The Englishness covers isolationism, choleric complacence, scepticism, cynicism, and so on. In a sense, the sloshiness of ‘waterland’ in the text seems like a part of the inescapable English identity.
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