백인 여성 크레올의 이중적 위치와 문제적 동일시: 진 리스의 어둠 속의 항해

Abstract

This paper focuses on the double status of the white female Creole and the unanchored consciousness of Anna Morgan in Voyage in the Dark, as an outsider born in a colony, in that neither be fitted into the mother country. Her Creole identity makes her subordinate, as both the subject and object of male consumption and a spectacle of the metropolis, and she inevitably becomes dependent on those consumers. This relationship is conveniently aligned with that of white owners and black slaves, although this problematic analogy is constantly denied by Anna herself, who recognizes her privileged white position in Dominica by looking backwardly. From this line of thought, this paper sheds light on the postcolonial characteristics of Rhys’s work through Anna''s adrift and fragmented consciousness and identity as an eternal refugee who never belongs to either side. This foreshadows the advent of the second generation of postcolonial writers, yet Rhys takes a distinctive position among them, envisioning complicated perspectives on imperialist colonialism intertwined with gender dynamics as a white female Creole. (Sookmyung Women’s University)