흑인 영혼의 비가시성과 이중의식 : 랠프 엘리슨의 보이지 않는 인간을 중심으로 = Black soul's invisibility and double consciousness in Ralph Ellison's invisible man

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This dissertation is to examine in Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man how the black's ambiguous identity develops itself into the African American's double consciousness as a critical and positive cultural strategy. Ellison's Invisible Man is a story of a black young man attempting to establish his black-identity. The black race like the protagonist have not been American and are still suffering from racial discrimination in America. They try to gain the same position and power as those of the white but their social status and identity has been ignored by the white, mainstream of the society. In this situation, the African American becomes an invisible man. The moment he becomes an invisible man, he is able to recognize himself as “black.” And he finds his ambiguous position in the conflict between racial root based in Africa and social root in America. In other words, he comes to be drawn into “double consciousness.”
Du Bois puts forward this term to account for an internal conflict of the black between what is African and what is American. But Du Bois strives not only to describe this vague identity but also to overcome the double consciousness, which turns the negative into the positive blackness in the self-realizing process. The nameless protagonist in Invisible Man was a character who has ambivalent feelings about his identity. He can be identified neither as an American nor as African but eventually comes to know who he is. He accepts his doubled-being and tries to gain his new identity as “African American.” The ambiguous feeling, double consciousness, turns into an new identity as blackness at the very moment. Therefore, for Ellison, double consciousness is not only a opportunity to recognize his identity but also a strategy to acquire his undeniable distinct.
First of all, Du Bois and Ellison's double consciousness shows a strong resistance against the white society, both of whom develop double consciousness into an affirmative concept of doubled-being that can be both African and American. As Gilroy puts it, by accepting double consciousness as the distinctiveness of the African American, the black in America acquire the cultural and politic power. Gilroy thinks of double consciousness as the specific counterculture of modernity produced by the black. In conclusion, double consciousness, which was once regarded as negative, is now a positive cultural strategy to the African American. That is to say, the African-Americans' blackness has power for “cultural discourse of ethnic group.”

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론 1
• Ⅱ.두 보이스의 흑인의 영혼과 이중의식 5
• 1. 흑인영혼의 비가시성 5
• 2. 이중적 딜레마의 흑인성 12
• Ⅲ. 랠프 엘리슨의 보이지 않는 인간과 이중의식 22
• 1. 보이지 않는 인간의 이중의식 22
• 2. 사회적 비판으로의 극복과 발전 29
• Ⅳ. 저항의 전략으로서의 이중의식 40
• 1. 존재론적 모호성 긍정 40
• 2. 저항적 문화전략으로의 수용 44
• Ⅴ. 결론 53
• Works Cited 56
• Abstract 60