モリスンの『ビラヴィド』再考 : ストウの『アンクル・トムの小屋』を書き直す(関西英文学研究)

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  • Morrison's Beloved Reconsidered : Rewriting Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin(Kansai English Studies)
  • モリスンの『ビラヴィド』再考 : ストウの『アンクル・トムの小屋』を書き直す
  • モリスン ノ 『 ビラヴィド 』 サイコウ : ストウ ノ 『 アンクル ・ トム ノ コヤ 』 オ カキナオス

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Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) have the same theme of a slave-mother's infanticide in common. Sethe of Beloved and Cassy of Uncle Tom kill their babies in order to save them from tortuous slave lives. However, the aftereffects of both women's murders are somewhat different from each other. Even though each mother grieves the loss of her child, Sethe seems not as much repentant as Cassy. Cassy's grief comes mainly from the loss of her baby, and her "sanity" is depicted as a result of the slavemaster's cruel treatment of her. She recovers from her depression easily at the end of the story when she reunites with her "lost" daughter. Cassy's regret of murdering her baby has gone somewhere and she is perfectly happy. This is what the 19^<th> century white woman writer described about a slave mother's grief concerning her murder. In Sethe's case, however, she seems to be satisfied with her act of killing, and not to be troubled at all. But her real trauma is deeply rooted in her heart and mind. With the appearances of Paul D and Beloved, Sethe's hidden regret is revealed. She suffers from her memories of the murder and reconstructs her childhood memories of her love she received from her own mother, wet nurse, and mother-in-law. This gives her a chance of getting rid of her traum and recovering her real self. In this portrayal, Morrison, an African American female novelist, focuses the heroine's trauma and the miserable slave lives in a wider perspective. For that purpose, she uses various narrative technuques to make a postmodern novel. Thus, rewriting Stowe's novel, Morrison created a greater novel of our century.

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