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다중적 소수자의 새로운 집짓기: 어머니의 집에서 다름의 회당까지 : A House-Building of a Manifold Minority: From Mothers House to the House of Difference

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Authors

배경민

Issue Date
2019
Publisher
서울대학교 인문대학 영어영문학과
Citation
영학논집, Vol.39, pp. 77-91
Keywords
diasporaqueerlesbianismCarriacoublackimmigrantbiomythographyhouse of differencespace
Abstract
This paper examines home in Audrey Lordes Zami in regards to how it differs from the home in diasporian context and how she utilizes her Carriacouian heritage to add up a new dynamics in accomplishing home as a house of difference. Conventionally in the field of diaspora studies, home has been considered as a fixated spacial object that invokes nostalgia to diasporas. From queer theorys perspective however, home has been widely considered a space of emergence for queer people where compulsory heterosexual regime prevails and thus inevitably expels the queer existence out of its boundary. In this sense, home for queer people is a nostalgic place where they have emerged from, and yet have never belonged to. For diasporas home is a faraway destination; for queer beings home is a neverland. Audrey Lorde on the other hand explores the concept of home through reconstructing memories from the past, which include not only her own childhood memories but also the memories of her mother who still retains a strong mental bond with her Carriacouian heritage. Lorde actively excavates and reinterprets the elements of lesbianism and female bonding from the Carriacouian culture of female community and labor, and utilizes it as the rediscovered origin of her various identities, such as her identity as a lesbian, a black and an immigrant. Biomythography, which is a term Lorde applies to her own work, in this sense refers to the search of her origin through her interpretation and reconstruction of her maternal background, which to the author is not just a geo-ethnical fact but also a space for myths and imagination. The ideal home for the author is thus not a fixated and heteronormative place but a house of difference where difference coexists and its form constantly shifts and becomes on the basis of its members and the life that they pursue. Heavily inspired by the community lifestyle of Carriacou as well as the contemporary lesbian solidarity Lorde proposes a new way of appreciating home by living the old in the new way.
Language
Korean
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/147239
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