실존의 관점에서 본 리차드 라이트의 『블랙 보이』
An Existential View of Richard Wright’s Black Boy
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Black Boy is Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel based on his harsh experience of the oppression under the Jim Crow Laws and lynching in the South. Black people were forced to live a subservient and obedient life of Uncle Tom under such discriminations and violence of the white. As shown in the case of black people in the South, others refused to recognize Wright as an independent individual, and he had to fight for recovering his subjectivity. In this respect, Wright and the French existentialists share the same philosophy that man is human to the extent that he tries to impose his existence on others in order to be recognized by them. Wright tries to make himself recognized by others by means of writing rather than physical violence. However, if this novel is interpreted with a view too much biased toward the poor living environment of black people in the South, the value of Wright’s effort to recover subjectivity will be undermined. It is because, if this novel is read from the point of such view, it looks like the environment drives him to fight and consequently the value of his behaviors according to his free will and choice will be lost. Through this novel, Wright places the value of an individual on top of any ideology or religious doctrine and focuses on the free choices of an individual and human dignity.
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Black Boy is Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel based on his harsh experience of the oppression under the Jim Crow Laws and lynching in the South. Black people were forced to live a subservient and obedient life of Uncle Tom under such discriminations and violence of the white. As shown in the case of black people in the South, others refused to recognize Wright as an independent individual, and he had to fight for recovering his subjectivity. In this respect, Wright and the French existentialists share the same philosophy that man is human to the extent that he tries to impose his existence on others in order to be recognized by them. Wright tries to make himself recognized by others by means of writing rather than physical violence. However, if this novel is interpreted with a view too much biased toward the poor living environment of black people in the South, the value of Wright’s effort to recover subjectivity will be undermined. It is because, if this novel is read from the point of such view, it looks like the environment drives him to fight and consequently the value of his behaviors according to his free will and choice will be lost. Through this novel, Wright places the value of an individual on top of any ideology or religious doctrine and focuses on the free choices of an individual and human dignity.
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