윌슨의 작품에 투영된 흑인 여성상 연구

왕영균,윤소영 한국동서비교문학학회 2019 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.0 No.50

August Wilson is a prolific Afro-American playwright in American contemporary drama. As a representative Afro-American playwright, his plays seek variety and genuineness of Afro-Americans’ lives. Although his plays are inclined to be somewhat malecentric, it is noteworthy that his female characters are subjective and independent in terms of their roles in family and their music, the Blues. In particular, two plays of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Fences are examined for analysis. These two plays provide specific perspectives on Wilson’s female characters. Are black women just ‘black’ or just ‘women’? In short, his female characters are summed up as the Blues and blackness. The Blues singer Ma represents the importance of their music ‘blues,’ which symbolizes Afro-Americans’ specific experience and history of slavery. In Ma Rainey, Ma stands subjective stance as a blues singer. Unlike Ma, Rose seems less independent, however, playing a role of a guardian for her family. In these plays, the meaning of space is of significance in that spatial concept is related to their existence and represents the peculiarity of sociohistoric constraints. Wilson’s women defies some ingrained memories as slaves. In conclusion, searching for the meaning of their body, presenting their music and assertion as individuals, Wilson’s women characters are in stance of existing as diasporic beings in American society.

『세일즈맨의 죽음』의 불안한 남성성

王榮均 동남보건대학 2002 論文集-東南保健大學 Vol.20 No.2

Male characters in American dramas have been treated as universal referents ? their stories are viewed by critics as encompassing dynamics relevant to humanity rather than specifically to men. Such an approach tends to write over the status of individual men in a desire to empower their voices as universal, thereby both avoiding the lived experiences of the individual man whose life may not fit this universal pattern and fallaciously assuming to speak for different men or gender groups. But one of the recent trends in studies of modern American dramas affected by feminist theories and men's studies has viewed that gender, as opposed to biological sex, is a construct. Thus these studies pose a question about the traditional gender role. The traditional gender role in America was constructed by the social, cultural myth shared by Americans. Gender role must, therefore, be changed according to the changes of the times. This study focuses the American myth of masculinity and examines the troubled masculinity of the male characters in Death of a Salesman by the effects of the American myth of the traditional masculinity. in particular the masculinity of fathers.

Storytelling of Food in Roald Dahl’s Novels

왕영균,윤소영 한국동서비교문학학회 2022 동서 비교문학저널 Vol.- No.61

Food is one of the recurring themes in literature. Books for both adults and children show the importance of food, which is a vehicle to deliver the texts’ meanings and values. To reveal the inseparable relationship between food and culture, this study chooses two works by Roald Dahl: Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In this study, the function and meaning of food in children’s literature is explored to disclose what effect it has on children’s growing into adults. Themes of growth and socialization are regarded as connecting dots between children’s literature and food. In this vein, as one of the dominant factors, food plays a pivotal role for children to build their ideal self-images. In Dahl’s texts, chocolate, for instance, refers to self-autonomy and the search for a genuine identity. In particular, chocolate is a signifier that shows the relationship between parent and child. In Matilda, chocolate functions as an important food for nurturing her mind when reading books. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chocolate functions to rebuild their relationship and reinforce identities as a forbidden food or favorite sweetmeat. In addition, like food, space is connected to children’s growth; particularly basing on the relationship to adults. Accordingly, this study explores how Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory depict the proper socialization of children by analyzing the meaning and function of food.

Fool For Love 연구

왕영균 동남보건대학 2004 論文集-東南保健大學 Vol.22 No.2

Shepard abandoned the conventions of coherence and attempted to create a theater in which emotional. psychological. or spiritual states are presented directly to the audience.

Lorraine Hansberry의 A Raisin in the Sun연구

王榮均 동남보건대학 1999 동남보건대학논문집 Vol.17 No.1

Sam Shepard의 True West에서의 남성 정체성 탐구

王榮均 동남보건대학 인문사회과학연구소 2001 東南保健大學論文集 人文社會硏究 Vol.2 No.-

This study explores how the male identity is presented in the works of Sam Shepard, particularly of True. West. Shepard's family plays starting in the late 1970s focus on the issue of male identity. Shepard is much interested in the patriarchal inheritance of American frontier mythology. The frontier mythologies and images that Sam Shepard's ' male characters have inherited from their fathers underlie their male identity. In True West we can see how the idea of male identity becomes entangled in the familial relationships that .drive the family plays. With emphasis upon the family's role in defining and limiting men, Shepard explores the family, particularly the father-son relationships. Shepard's men lack for a real role model in their fathers. Failed father-son relationships are at the root of Shepard's troubled concepts of manhood and masculinity. By locating the duel within both fraternal and paternal relationships, True West addresses the question of origins and originality of male identity.

수사학적 입장에서 바라본 초서의 『캔터베리 이야기』

왕영균,장응상 東南保健大學 2007 論文集-東南保健大學 Vol.25 No.1

The aim of this study is to argue Chaucer’is The Canterbury Tales in a rhetorical viewpoint focusing on Foucault s authority theory.

The Waste Land의 신화 연구

王榮均 동남보건대학 1998 동남보건대학논문집 Vol.16 No.2

샘 세퍼드 희곡의 신화적 요소

왕영균 동남보건대학 2003 論文集-東南保健大學 Vol.21 No.2

Shepard recognizes modern America as a waste land, and thinks the American dreams, protestantism, and western mythology are no longer the ideals for Americans. He pursues to create new American cultural mythology through various activities relating as movies and theatres. Shepard shows that traditional American mythology collapsed entirely through characters in his plays. He makes his characters enact various roles to pursue new mythology. Shepard's characters from accepted American mythology are ruined by family collapse, disbelief in religion, and distaste of commercialism, which is the core matters of Shepard's plays. Shepard's characters surrounded with many anxieties and inauthencities are people who cannot find their appropriate roles and identities. They pursue their identities struggling with many American culture icons affected by media. They try to defend themselves from past burdens and anxieties by finding essential origins to pursue their authentic identities. They are compelled to be the consistent changing existences by their dreams, visions, and fears. They suffer from psychological splits. With the hope that Shepard and his characters may find the authentic identities substituted for the sterile ideals of modern American culture, Shepard continue to pursue the impossible.

아버지의 그림자 극복하기 : Fences를 중심으로

왕영균(Wang Young Gyun) 한국현대영미드라마학회 2011 현대영미드라마 Vol.24 No.2

This paper aims to investigate African-Americans’ experiences in a White-oriented society and their influences on the construction of black male masculinity for generations. Black male Americans suffer from difficulties in living as family providers and maintaining their own masculinity in a White-oriented hostile society. August Wilson’s Fences is focused on African-Americans’ oppressed masculinity and deprived history in the American society. Like his other plays, this play traces challenges and travails of living both as black males and as fathers. African-American males have burdens of being responsible for bread-winning as a patriarch and maintaining masculinity. In particular, sons succeed to their fathers’ masculinity; they cannot escape from the shadow of their fathers. Literally, “fences” play a role of social barriers that African-Americans cannot overcome. Troy urges Cory to get a good job instead of going to college with a football scholarship because he doesn’t want his son to experience the same frustration as he did when he could not be an athlete. Troy, as a responsible family-provider, gives a priority to supporting a family over maintaining masculinity. In this respect, fathers’ and male characters’ wandering and agony are deeply seated in the problems of masculinity. Keeping track of the thematic concerns, this paper investigates sociological and domestic factors, which have a great influence on the formation of the male characters’ masculinity. Among those factors, the father figures have the greatest influence on their sons’ masculinity. Fathers’ urging their sons to be masculine may lead to the conflict between fathers and sons, but the sons cannot evade from the shadow of their fathers’ masculinity. It means fathers’ masculinity can be repeated or transmitted to their sons. Furthermore, male characters in this play are experiencing some crises and disorientation in establishing their masculinity because their fathers stick to an outdated concept of masculinity which is not suitable to the reality of their times. As a result, they have no confidence in their masculinity, or they are caught in the shadow of the masculinity inherited from their fathers. This play leads us to challenge critical reception of masculinity in American plays and to open new discourses about gender as well as masculinity.