• 이베로아메리카
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.53-81
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• 2019

일반적으로 콜롬비아의 이미지는 위험한 국가이며, 게릴라와 전쟁 중이고, 최대의 마약 생산국 중의 하나라는 것이다. 이 글의 분석 대상인 펠리페베르가라(Felipe Vergara)의 극 작품 『킬렐레Kilele』의 중심을 이루는 보하야(Bojayá) 학살은 부조리함과 규모 측면에서 2000년대 들어 콜롬비아에서 일어난 가장 충격적인 사건이었다. 이 작품은 보하야 지방의 쓰라리고 악몽 같은 과거의 사건을 다루는데 그치지 않고, 생존자들이 죽음의 덮개를 찢고서 연옥에서 괴로워하는 영혼들과 소통하면서, 분열의 재통합을 향해 나아간다. 이것은 연옥의 여러 공간을 떠돌아다니는 죽은 사람들에게 마땅한 장례식을 치러주는 것으로 이루어진다. 이 글은 『킬렐레』에 나타나는 서사시 구조와 아프리카의 영혼성과 관련된 제의의식을 비롯해 창작과정과 이 작품의 파편적 구조를 분석하면서, 학살이라는 외상에서 어떻게 회복되는 데 도움이 되었는가를 살펴본다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.433-451
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• 2018

In Jesmyn Ward's 2017 novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward places herself within the modern African American literary tradition and lays out the unending "historical traumas" of blacks and cultural haunting in her narrative. She brings to the fore the story of a young black boy and demonstrates the difficulty of living while a black man in the American rural South. Living or dead, black males remain spectral as their frustrated black bodies are endlessly rejected and disembodied. It's through Ward's close attention to the notions of black masculinity and retrieval of (black) humanity that the black South is remembered, recuperated, and historicized. Shrewdly enough, Ward expands it further into the tradition of American literature. Instead of singularizing African American identity and its historical traumas, she renders them the part of American history and universalizing the single black story as the story of the American South. Filling in the gaps that Faulkner and other white writers have left in their novels, Ward writes stories about the unspeakable, the invisible, the excluded to deconstruct white narratives and rebuild the American history; and reasserts African roots and history, spirituality, black raciality and locality within the American tradition. I examine the symbolic significance of Jojo's claim of black masculinity within the socio-political contexts of contemporary America. I also look closely at Ward's portrayal of Jojo's black family genealogy on account of its traumatic experiences of incarceration in notorious Parchman Farm. Locating Jojo as the inspiration of linking the past and the present, the unburied and the living, I contend that Ward creates "home" for blacks in an atemporal oceanic space where the past and the present are able to meet simultaneously. I argue that the oceanic space is an alternative space of affect that functions against the space of white rationality.