CREATING A "THIRD SPACE" : MAGICAL REALISM IN TONIMORRISON'S EARLY NOVELS

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Toni Morrison’s portrayal for African American’s living conditions and
her elaborate arrangements are frequently discussed in African American
literature in a way that reconstruct postcolonialist concerns from the persp
ective of history in the United States. The postcolonial theorist Homi Bha
bha points out a “third space” through which the regeneration of meaning
needs cultural positionality and cultural reference to be mobilized in the
passageway. This paper, from a new perspective of a “third space,” explor
es Morrison’s magical realism as a possibility to investigate the traumatic
real of the institutionalized slavery and ideologized racism in a white dom
inated society. In Morrison’s early novels, those issues are tactically discu
ssed through her magical realism which creates a “third Space.” This pape
r, through examining magical realism from the perspective of a “third Spa
ce,” attempts to unravel Morrison’s hybridity and complexity, and explore
how she visualizes the shadow and speaks the unspeakable. Morrison’s na
rratives seem to be magical while they are actually real. In her early novel
s, she repeatedly utilizes the magical myth, folklore, and fragmentation to
generate the authentic real related to the slavery history as well as the cur
rent white dominated society.