시코랙스와 미란다 사이: 메리 시콜의 시민권 서사 실험

Abstract

After more than a century of obscurity, the Jamaican nurse and Crimean war-hero Mary Seacole is now widely recognized as a figure of global importance in the wake of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement. A biracial British woman born between a Scottish father and a Jamaican mother, Seacole published in 1857 an autobiography-travelogue titled Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. Emphasizing the indispensability and importance of Transatlanticism as a methodology in studying a Caribbean-born colonial subject such as Seacole, this paper draws upon recent scholarship of nineteenth-century American literature on citizenship to investigate the way Seacole makes an intervention into the dominant British national narrative of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, it turns to the hitherto neglected references and connection to William Shakespeare in Wonderful Adventures. Shakespeare’s The Tempest serves as the major intertext in this paper’s examination of the way Seacole subtlely yet powerfully revises and appropriates the narrative tradition around the female witch-healer with a dark complexion in her demand for a fuller British citizenship. Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering (1815) and Ivanhoe (1819) are discussed as texts presenting more recent versions of witch-healers of non-English origin with whom Seacole’s contemporaries were familiar.