짐 크로우 시대의 미국 남부와 백인 여성 = 윌리엄 포크너, 리처드 라이트, 릴리언 스미스의 작품을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Southern white women must be read as a historically and culturally produced category that is situated within specific material conditions and is interactive with the complicated problems of class and race. Southern white women as a character were invented during Reconstruction, and the character was reactivated in the 1930s, another period of renewing the southern past, when the issues of womens roles and the place of blacks in the southern society were the primary cultural concerns of the South. Southern white women were the objects of the Souths most careful defining and categorizing. Southern white women, so called ladies (in contrast to black women) were regarded as sacred, moral, and pure.
The character of white ladies shows how the category is actually precarious. The body of the white woman and the body of the Jim Crow Era are conflated. White women were supposed to be protected by white men from the alleged sexual attacks of black beast rapists, which involved white mens fear of losing their prestige and masterhood over blacks and white women who were developing economically and mentally at that time. Interestingly, white women who were supposed to be dependent and protected were actually strong enough to take active part in a lynching ceremony and to appropriate the black beast rapist. White women were also brave enough to resist the oppressive and threatening culture of segregation and lynching. The novels of William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Lillian Smith show how white women were entangled in the Jim Crow South.