버지니아 울프의 『델러웨이 부인』과 존 쿳시의 『포』에 나타난 침묵하는 작가와 타자The Silent Writer and the Silenced Other in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
- Other Titles
- The Silent Writer and the Silenced Other in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
- Authors
- 백진
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- 한국영미문학페미니즘학회
- Keywords
- Virginia Woolf; Mrs Dalloway; J. M. Coetzee; Foe; silent writer; questioning authority; the silenced Other; feminist narrative technique; ethics
- Citation
- 영미문학페미니즘, v.23, no.2, pp.29 - 56
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 영미문학페미니즘
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 29
- End Page
- 56
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/95226
- DOI
- 10.15796/fsel.2015.23.2.002
- ISSN
- 1226-9689
- Abstract
- This study examines the question of the authorial authority of the early twentieth-century female writer Virginia Woolf and the contemporary male South African writer J. M. Coetzee. For these two authors, the ideal writer is the one who is emptied of her or his own beliefs, assertions, and prejudices. This paper argues that some of Woolf’s and Coetzee’s feminist narrative techniques, questioning the authority of the white female characters, Clarissa Dalloway and Susan Barton, serve to blur the boundaries between the Other and I in Mrs Dalloway and Foe. The characters’ failures to restore the silence of the Others is noteworthy because the Others’ independent resistance through their bodies and silences, paradoxically, subverts the dominant discourses and thereby makes the texts into homes, spaces of mediated communication for the oppressed Others. Hence, we can find the aesthetic and ethical significance of these two novels in that they urge us to share the pain of the Others and assume the responsibility for it voluntarily.
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