이야기를 통한 치유: 린다 호건의『세상을 지켜보는 여자: 한 원주민의 회고록』Healing through Storytelling: Linda Hogan's The Woman Who Watches Over the World
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- Healing through Storytelling: Linda Hogan's The Woman Who Watches Over the World
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- 전세재
- Issue Date
- Feb-2018
- Publisher
- 한국영미문화학회
- Keywords
- 회고록; 이야기; 정체성; 자연; 치유; 아메리카 원주민; 린다 호건; Memoir; Story; Identity; Nature; Healing; Native American; Linda Hogan
- Citation
- 영미문화, v.18, no.1, pp 1 - 21
- Pages
- 21
- Journal Title
- 영미문화
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 21
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/2094
- ISSN
- 1598-5431
- Abstract
- In The Woman Who Watches over the World, Linda Hogan explores the broken identity of herself and her family, the issue of the poverty and the identity crisis, the alcoholism prevalent in the Native American community and their silenced history. Previous studies have claimed that her memoir contributes to the restoration of Native American identity and history by accusing the violence of white culture, and seeks to recognize a dialogue between native culture and white mainstream culture as well. However they seem to overlook the complicated relations among story, identity, body and nature, to which Hogan as a multi-binded storyteller resorts as a way to break the silence of herself and her tribe for healing. Her own story, as a way to break the silence, becomes the formative drive to reveal the silenced history of her own tribe to lead the young generation to the future. She also understands the formative function of the story, which becomes the vehicle for embodying and connecting themselves to nature. To her, healing lies in the restoration of sympathetic relationship with nature. History, as a type of story, can be made up or mistold just like a story. There may be a blind spot where one cannot assess what is true. In spite of the vision of the parallel worlds of the two cultures she presents, there seems to be no immediate solution to the discrimination against the Native American poverty, identity crisis, and environmental problems which the Native American community faces. However, it can be said that her memoir serves as a rudder by presenting a direction not only to the Native American but also to readers in other cultures in its quest for practical possibilities for the future.
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