“문학의 정치”: 캐롤 앤 더피의 포스트-유토피아 시대에 시 쓰기
“The Politics of Literature”: Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry Writing in the Post-Utopian Age
0
조회
0
다운로드
1
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper aims to argue how Carol Ann Duffy’s poems explore the poetic constructions surrounding the issues of immigration, ethnicity and nationalism under the Thatcher Years. Focused on the voices and positions of ‘outsiders,’ Duffy’s poetry―The Standing Female Nude(1985), Selling Manhattan(1987), The Other Country(1990), and Mean Time(1993)―is not only interested in the impact of the free-market economic policies upon the material lives of the common people, but also examines the treatment of national identity as strategically constructed and disseminated rhetoric of the policy. Furthermore, Duffy’s way of poetry writing reminds us Jacque Ranci`ere’s critical theory of “The Politics of Literature.” With the concept of “the distribution of the sensible,” Ranci`ere points out that literature (and aesthetics) is about “determining what presents itself to sense experience” and it essentially involves the inscription of the sense of community, like politics. He also stresses that literature is more radically political in the sense of bringing in disagreement than politics. Evoking Ranci`ere’s theory, Duffy’s poetry seeks to invalidate the political subjectivization by continuously disrupting the immigration control, racial discrimination and possessive individualism under the Thatcherite. Ultimately, this paper analyzes how Duffy’s poems destabilize supposedly fixed entity of collective identity—class, gender, race, religion, emphasizing the ‘in-between’ space of the ‘outsiders.’ In so doing, Duffy offers us the new possibilities of poetry writing in the post-Utopian age.
Abstract
This paper aims to argue how Carol Ann Duffy’s poems explore the poetic constructions surrounding the issues of immigration, ethnicity and nationalism under the Thatcher Years. Focused on the voices and positions of ‘outsiders,’ Duffy’s poetry―The Standing Female Nude(1985), Selling Manhattan(1987), The Other Country(1990), and Mean Time(1993)―is not only interested in the impact of the free-market economic policies upon the material lives of the common people, but also examines the treatment of national identity as strategically constructed and disseminated rhetoric of the policy. Furthermore, Duffy’s way of poetry writing reminds us Jacque Ranci`ere’s critical theory of “The Politics of Literature.” With the concept of “the distribution of the sensible,” Ranci`ere points out that literature (and aesthetics) is about “determining what presents itself to sense experience” and it essentially involves the inscription of the sense of community, like politics. He also stresses that literature is more radically political in the sense of bringing in disagreement than politics. Evoking Ranci`ere’s theory, Duffy’s poetry seeks to invalidate the political subjectivization by continuously disrupting the immigration control, racial discrimination and possessive individualism under the Thatcherite. Ultimately, this paper analyzes how Duffy’s poems destabilize supposedly fixed entity of collective identity—class, gender, race, religion, emphasizing the ‘in-between’ space of the ‘outsiders.’ In so doing, Duffy offers us the new possibilities of poetry writing in the post-Utopian age.
참고문헌 (25)
- 이택광, "문학의 정치성: 랑시에르의 들뢰즈 비판에 대하여", 비평과이론, 15(2), pp.159~177 (2010), 한국비평이론학회
- 황정아, "자끄 랑씨에르와 '문학의 정치'", 안과밖:영미문학연구, (31), pp.50~72 (2011), 영미문학연구회
- Black, Jeremy, "A History of Britain : 1945 to Brexit" (2017), Indiana University Press
- Dowson, Jane, "Carol Ann Duffy : Poet for Our Times" (2016), Macmillan Press
- Duffy, Carol Ann, "Mean Time" (1993), Anvil
- Duffy, Carol Ann, "Selling Manhattan" (1987), Anvil
- Duffy, Carol Ann, "Standing Female Nude" (1985), Anvil
- Duffy, Carol Ann, "The Other Country" (1990), Anvil
- Kinnahan, Linda A., "Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism", pp.245~268 (1996), SUNY P
- Kinnahan, Linda A., "Contemporary Women’s Poetry", pp.208~225 (2000), Macmillan P
- Kinnahan, Linda A., "Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse", pp.132~179 (2004), U of Iowa P
- McAllister, Andrew, "Interview with Carol Ann Duffy", Bête Noire, 6, pp.69~77 (1988)
- Michelis, Angelica, "The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Choosing Through Words’", pp.77~98 (2003), Manchester UP
- Padel, Ruth, "52 Ways of looking at a poem" (2002), Chatto and Windus
- Patterson, Christina, "Carol Ann Duffy : Street-Wise Heroines at Home", Independent, ~ (1999)
- Ranci'ere, Jacque, "The Politics of Aesthetics" (2004), Continuum
- Ranci'ere, Jacque, "The Politics of Literature" (2011), Polity
- Rees-Jones, Deryn, "Carol Ann Duffy" (2002), Northcote House
- Roberts, Neil, "Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry" (2013), Routledge
- Sansom, Ian, "Wayne’s world: Review of Selected Poems", London Review of Books (1995)
- Smith, Anna Marie, "New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality" (1994), Cambridge UP
- Smith, Stan, "The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Choosing Tough Words’", pp.143~168 (2003), Manchester UP
- Thomas, Jane, "The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Choosing Tough Words’", pp.121~142 (2003), Manchester UP
- Winterson, Jeanette, "Can you move diagonally? : Interview with the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy", Times, ~ (2009)
- Woods, Michael, "The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Choosing Tough Words’", pp.169~185 (2003), Manchester UP