포스트식민 조건과 나이폴적 인물의 가능성: 『흉내내는 사람들』

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the potentiality of the postcolonial subject in V. S. Naipaul(1932- )'s The Mimic Men (1967) through analyzing R. R. K. Singh, the protagonist of this novel. In this novel, which appears as memoirs of an exiled politician from a postcolonial nation, though Singh has the limitation of a negative subject who represents distress of postcolonial societies like Isabella sneeringly, his sneer and detestation aim at the Western imperial nations equally. Singh's continuous self- exposure and his attitude of self-examination, however, let the readers overcome the criticism that Naipaul's character is just cynical and skeptical, and expect him to develop into an open-minded and rebellious subject. The second chapter examines how Singh goes through the course of subject-forming in the conditions of racial and cultural hybridity and diaspora in Isabella and in the mechanism of the colonial education. Through Naipaul's keen, accurate description, we can acquire abundant harvest of uncovering of the substance of the colonial education. The third chapter focuses on Singh's desire to escape out of Isabella and detestation that he feels in the center of the imperial city during the period of study abroad in London. The colonial education makes Singh feel himself marginal and deserted and long for escape to the center of the Western imperial city. But what is left to him is the feeling of emptiness and detestation on the Metropolis. Singh, the colonial subject, carries out self-denial repeatedly. Through this process, though western imperialism is demythicized, we can observe that his pain is never cured easily. The fourth chapter focuses on Singh's seeking for order and existential stability which he could not find both in the postcolonial society and in the center of the Western imperial city through his act of writing. Disillusioned at the real world around him and choosing to go to England as an exile and a hermit, Singh begins to write his own memoirs. Through such writings, he seems to achieve order and stability he has longed for. In the conclusion, I estimate the potentiality of a Naipaulian postcolonial subject who evaluates postcolonial societies and the Western empires through the introspective writing based on keen sensibility and self-consciousness with a cool head. Singh can be evaluated as a Naipaulian postcolonial subject who has keen insight and rebellious potentiality.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• 인용문헌
• Abstract

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 호미 바바, "호미 바바와의 대담" (54) : 80-95, 1998

2 박지향, "제국주의:신화와 현실" 서울대학교 출판부 2000

3 지그문트 프로이트, "무의식에 관하여" 열린책들 1997

4 Gupta, Suman., "V. S. Naipaul. U. K" Northcote House 1999

5 Huggan, Graham., "V. S. Naipaul and the Political Correctness Debate" 21 (21): 200-206, 1994

6 Mustafa,Fawzia., "V. S. Naipaul" Cambridge UP 1995

7 Schiff, Stephen., "The Ultimate Exile The Ultimate Exile The New Yorker 23 May 60-71."

8 Naipaul,V.S., "The Mimic Men" Andre Deutsch 1974

9 Bahbha, Homi K., "The Location of Culture" Routledge 1994

10 Ashcroft., "The Empire Writes Back Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literature" Routledge 1989

11 Tiffin, Helen., "Rites of Resistance in Counter-Discourse and West Indian Biography" 3 (3): 28-45, 1989

12 Moore-Gilbert,Bart., "Postcolonial Theory in Contexts,Practices,Politics" Verso 1997

13 Said,Edward., "Orientalism" Vintage 1979

14 Gorra, Michael., "Naipaul or Rushdie" 76 (76): 374-389, 1993

15 King,Bruce., "Modern Novelist V. S. Naipau." St.Martin's Press 1993

16 Nixon,Rob., "London Calling in V.S. Naipaul,Postcolonial Mandarin" Oxford UP 1992

17 Said, Edward., "Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World" 70 (70): 44-64, 1986

18 Naipaul, V. S, "An Island Betrayed Harpers Mar 61-72"