차일드의『호보목』에 나타나는 미국 건국과 타자화된 미원주민 재현의 정치성Founding America and the Politics of Representing Native-Americans as the Other in Child's Hobomok
- Authors
- 손정희; 김여진
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- 한국영미문화학회
- Keywords
- Lydia Maria Child; Hobomok; politics of literary representation; Native Americans; vanishing American; noble savage; miscegenation; the other
- Citation
- 영미문화, v.10, no.2, pp 99 - 125
- Pages
- 27
- Journal Title
- 영미문화
- Volume
- 10
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 99
- End Page
- 125
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/34173
- DOI
- 10.15839/eacs.10.2.201008.99
- ISSN
- 1598-5431
- Abstract
- This paper explores the political significance of a literary work, the hidden side beneath the ideology of founding America in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok which reconstructs the history of the colonial period. The ideological strategy of founding America on racial discrimination is given a repeated representation in 19th-century American novels. Most works shed a negative light on Native Americans, whereas Hobomok stands out by presenting a positive picture of a miscegenation between a Native American man and a white woman, the acculturation of a half Indian into the white society. Furthermore, Child undoes distorted stereotypes about native Americans, exposing the Puritans' intolerant and exclusive attitudes and criticizing men who forced women to be obedient for the cause of nation and religion.
However, Child also shows that she could not be free from the ideology of founding America which insisted on the superiority of the white's racial identity and excluded the Native Americans as beings who were destined to vanish gradually but eventually. Although Hobomok revises stereotypical representation of Native Americans as the other, it also serves for a political purpose, showing a politically inseparable relationship between literary works and the ideology of founding America.
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