아프리카계 미국인의 탈주의 정치학 : 리처드 라이트의 후기 논픽션에 나타난 망명의식 = African American Politics of Flight: Richard Wright's Reflections on Exile in his Later Non-fiction

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Wright's postcolonial thought resulted from his act of flight from an earlier interest in racial violence and alienation to an exilic sense of global emergence of postcolonial resistance and solidarity. The 1950s marked a crucial change in his intellectual life. Wright became deeply interested in the upsurge of anticolonialism among the Third World peoples, to which he was sympathetic by reason of racial affinity and of historical and social thoughts.
Half a century before Bill Ashcroft and his colleagues in The Empire Writes Back formulated the postcolonial theory in the late 1980s, Richard Wright had already foretold the emergence of postcolonial literatures and anticipated the current postcolonial theory. In relation to American racism, Wright boldly declared the plight of African American as that of an internal colony. He also described the African American to be intrinsically colonial subject. In his 1950s' nonfiction, Black Power, The Color Curtain, and White Man, Listen! Wright began to elaborate a political theory of flight in the age of diaspora and postcolonialism. His postcolonial manifesto, the liberation of the colored peoples of the world is the most important event of our century, is a refrain that runs throughout his work. This recognition became the goal of his unfinished quest which had started with individual freedom from American racism, and progressing toward global decolonization from world-wide western colonialism. In other words, Wright's intellectual position was to shift from that of a fighter against racial injustice to a seeker after a trans-racial and trans-national humanistic perspective.
In conclusion, it can be said that Wright's politics of flight in his nonfictional writings signifies his turning away from a community of Western intellectuals bent upon preserving the freedom of man in Europe and his moving toward the nomadic outsider, the postcolonial intellectual attempting to restore freedom in Africa and Asia; beyond the color curtain, toward the consciousness of exilic multitude.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론: 디아스포라 시대의 탈주
• Ⅱ. 아프리카계 미국인의 탈주와 탈식민 근대
• Ⅲ. 라이트의 후기 논픽션에 나타난 탈주와 망명의식
• Ⅳ. 결론: "피부의 장막"을 넘어서
• 〈참고 문헌〉
• Abstract