불확실한 과거에 대한 ‘이야기하기’ - 『셔틀콕』을 중심으로
Storytelling of an Uncertain Past in Shuttlecock
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This paper observes the process through which story-telling embraces an uncertain past within the present. The uncertain past particularly could be some ugliness of British history behind the imperialistic glory, and young English writers of the 1980s tried to redefine traditional Englishness. Graham Swift, of the after-war generation, embodies genuine Englishness as an Anglo-English male writer. Swift favours English setting outweighed by Englishness—often provincial or suburban. He is obsessively fascinated with historical events and processes of the distant and more recent past. He combines his artistic creativity with critical awareness of history and mixes history, myth, and fantasy together in his narratives. Therefore, most of his novels transfer personal story-telling to extensive history-telling. In Shuttlecock, the protagonist Prentice, who has been overwhelmed by his father's glorious masculinity, explores his father's past and then confronts its ugly truth and weakness. Through embracing the ugliness and weakness of his father's past—further of English history—, instead of uncovering them, Prentice helps the reader to see a redefining process of the historically wrapped Englishness which unconsciously haunts the consciousness of the English people.
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This paper observes the process through which story-telling embraces an uncertain past within the present. The uncertain past particularly could be some ugliness of British history behind the imperialistic glory, and young English writers of the 1980s tried to redefine traditional Englishness. Graham Swift, of the after-war generation, embodies genuine Englishness as an Anglo-English male writer. Swift favours English setting outweighed by Englishness—often provincial or suburban. He is obsessively fascinated with historical events and processes of the distant and more recent past. He combines his artistic creativity with critical awareness of history and mixes history, myth, and fantasy together in his narratives. Therefore, most of his novels transfer personal story-telling to extensive history-telling. In Shuttlecock, the protagonist Prentice, who has been overwhelmed by his father's glorious masculinity, explores his father's past and then confronts its ugly truth and weakness. Through embracing the ugliness and weakness of his father's past—further of English history—, instead of uncovering them, Prentice helps the reader to see a redefining process of the historically wrapped Englishness which unconsciously haunts the consciousness of the English people.
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