인종차별(이인종간의결혼)

목차

1.이인종간의결혼
2.사회적가치관
3.인종차별주의

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ho participated in the nationalist discourse defined national identity by delineating the racial, cultural, religious and sexual lines between whites and non-whites. So the historical romance written by white male writers glorified American founding fathers, establishing white male as the forerunner of civilization.
Lydia Maria Child and Catherine Maria Sedgwick tried to deconstruct American history by rewriting it from the perspective of Indians and white women of that time. They went back to historical novels, frontier romance, and captivity narrative which promoted racist and sexist nationalism in order to critique nationalism and imagine alternative American society. They came to realization that Indians and white women are in the same position under patriarchy and white supremacy. Unlike Virginia Woolf in the twentieth century whose character says "As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country," the female characters created by these two writers tried to declare themselves as active members of American nation-building while resisting white male authority and intervening in the public area. In particular, they introduce the subject of interracial marriage which is directly opposed to the idea of racial purity and origin of nation. However, Lydia Child in Hobomok remained as ethnocentric in her idea of complete assimilation of Native Americans into white society, which was the limit of her vision of alternative society. James Fenimore Cooper in his work of The Last of th Mohicans which was published two year after Child's work responded to Child by reestablishing the white male as the central figure of national identity. One year after Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Catherine Maria Sedgwick in her historical novel Hope Leslie picked this subject of Indian/white racial conflicts and reconstructed American national history from the point of Indians and women. In particular, she introduces a strong Indian woman who resists the patriarchal authority and acts as her conscience guides. Her white counterpart and double, Hope Leslie also resists the legal authority to rescue the wrongfully accused Indian woman in spite of the possibility of being punished. These two women transcend the public/ the private division by intervening in the legal and public affairs. Sedgwick is very conscious in presenting the Indians and the pride of Indian culture. She reverses the stereotypes of Indians being cruel and savage by presenting the atrocity committed by whites which was no less cruel. In conclusion, in spite of the fact that the imaginative horizon of these women writers are limited due to their position in American history, they expose the relationship between racism and patriarchy by examining the idea of nation-building, nationalism and women. Furthermore these women writers are forerunners who predicts the advent of new age in which hybridization is not only inevitable but healthy to the multicultural and multiracial American society.

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인종차별주의,   이인종간의결혼,   이인종과인종차별