파라텍스트(Paratext)의 텍스트화 ― 阮慶岳 소설의 타자성과 시공간성 (Paratextuality for a Global Readership: Alterity and Spatiotemporality in Ruan Qingyue’s Stories)

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초록

Drawing on Genette’s concept of paratext, this article examines the relationship between texts and paratexts, as presented in Ruan Qingyue’s collection of stories, Zeng Manzu. Focusing on the roles of paratexts in the interpretation of the texts, this article explores the close linkage between the texts of “Zeng Manzu” and “Paper Angels,” and the paratexts, especially the publisher’s mottoes as well as the critics’ introduction and the review. It probes the ways in which the emphasis on the temporality of the present in the preface pertains to the recalling of the past and the future in “Zeng Manzu,” concomitantly actualizing textuality through paratextuality. Furthermore, this article delves into the prominent features of spatiality in association with alterity and discusses the representation of space in the formation of racial politics and social life of the people. Rather than essentializing the space of Taiwan and the U.S. in particular, the stories symbolically embody an open, complementary space; each space is imperative to the production of textual meanings and their thematization: the unflagging pursuit of unconditional love; a stern warning against an epidemic of violence inherent in all humans, irrespective of race and ethnicity; and the nebulous nature of the self-other dichotomy. By linking the authorship with the publisher’s mottoes, this study extends the concept of paratextuality in terms of its social impact for a global readership. The significance of paratextuality in Ruan’s works resides not only in the completion of the textual meanings but also in the extension of the literary through social influence through the dissemination of common, yet far-reaching humane values unbounded by national and ethnic boundaries.

영어초록

Drawing on Genette’s concept of paratext, this article examines the relationship between texts and paratexts, as presented in Ruan Qingyue’s collection of stories, Zeng Manzu. Focusing on the roles of paratexts in the interpretation of the texts, this article explores the close linkage between the texts of “Zeng Manzu” and “Paper Angels,” and the paratexts, especially the publisher’s mottoes as well as the critics’ introduction and the review. It probes the ways in which the emphasis on the temporality of the present in the preface pertains to the recalling of the past and the future in “Zeng Manzu,” concomitantly actualizing textuality through paratextuality. Furthermore, this article delves into the prominent features of spatiality in association with alterity and discusses the representation of space in the formation of racial politics and social life of the people. Rather than essentializing the space of Taiwan and the U.S. in particular, the stories symbolically embody an open, complementary space; each space is imperative to the production of textual meanings and their thematization: the unflagging pursuit of unconditional love; a stern warning against an epidemic of violence inherent in all humans, irrespective of race and ethnicity; and the nebulous nature of the self-other dichotomy. By linking the authorship with the publisher’s mottoes, this study extends the concept of paratextuality in terms of its social impact for a global readership. The significance of paratextuality in Ruan’s works resides not only in the completion of the textual meanings but also in the extension of the literary through social influence through the dissemination of common, yet far-reaching humane values unbounded by national and ethnic boundaries.

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