영문학 작품 다시 쓰기의 의미 - Wuthering Heights와 Windward Heights의 경우 = Rewriting English Classics and its Meaning ―Bronte`s Wuthering Heights vs. Maryse Conde`s Windward Heights

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This paper introduces Maryse Conde`s Windward Heights not as a postcolonial counter-discourse but as a self-help therapeutic moral novel for the writer, her own self. Windward Heights, a rewritng of Emily Bronte`s Wuthering heights and a postcolonial work which, as Ashcroft puts it, “covers the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day.” However, it is not a counter-discourse per se, because it dismantles racist theories by judging the behaviors of both black and white characters according to their moral attitudes: Razye, counterpart of Heathcliff, is condemned mostly for his anti-Christian cruelty, while Aymeric, Bronte`s Edgar, even though becomes bankrupt and dies, gets a humanistic redemption, and Irmine, Bronte`s Isabella, the poor victim of Razye`s vengence, overcomes the sad memory of her husband`s violence by Christian forgiving. All these humanistic aspects in Windward Heights lead the reader to understand the novel as the writer`s therapeutic device for her past painful history as “the other.” As Conde declares, writing for her is “a type of therapy,” “ a way to be safe and sound.” And to make a full use of it, she achieves a carnival of all the subaltern voices and call the black servants, the Creole fishermen, fishwives, Indians and children into the center of her story to let them reveal the hidden stories of the colonial Caribbean life and cry out the woes from their hearts so that all the “subalterns” can be at peace with the world. In relocating postcolonialism, reconciliation and “steroscopic vision” should be given the first priority.