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로버트 코미어의 ‘정체성 정치학’—『나는 치즈다』에 나타나는 애덤의 허구적 정체성Robert Cormier’s ‘Identity Politics’: The Fictional Identity of Adam Presented in I am the Cheese

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Robert Cormier’s ‘Identity Politics’: The Fictional Identity of Adam Presented in I am the Cheese
Authors
류연지
Issue Date
Jun-2019
Publisher
한국영어영문학회
Keywords
Robert Cormier; adolescent novel; Identity Politics; adolescent features; I am the Cheese
Citation
영어영문학, v.65, no.2, pp 365 - 389
Pages
25
Journal Title
영어영문학
Volume
65
Number
2
Start Page
365
End Page
389
URI
https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/3992
DOI
10.15794/jell.2019.65.2.010
ISSN
1016-2283
2465-8545
Abstract
Early novels about adolescence featured adolescent characters who were trying to adapt themselves to adults’ expectations or social norms. Their storylines assumed an educative role by instilling an ideal model of adolescents into teenagers. However, as Robert Cormier published adolescent novels in the 1970s, the stream of adolescent literature was converted. Since the emergence of novels by Cormier, adolescent characters facing social issues and struggling against critical situations rather than adapting themselves to social norms began appearing. Cormier’s novels employ new adolescent characters that are a departure from "adolescent images” represented by preexisting adolescent literature, playing the role of reconstructing or deconstructing socially constructed adolescent features. His novel, I am the Cheese include minute descriptions of adolescent characters who strive to escape from their critical situations by themselves but fail in the end. Cormier enables readers to realize the social problem of imposing a “collective identity” on teenagers through adolescent characters in his novels. He discloses that any “adolescence” allowed and accepted in society is not the underlying nature of teenagers but something fictional shaped by social norms. This study is a review of Cormier's view of adolescents and interprets “adolescence” from a critical point of view through analyses of his primary novel, I am the Cheese, and discusses his novels’ influence on adolescent literature and its meaning.
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