소설의 발생과 성적 계약—국민국가 담론을 넘어 (The Rise of the Novel and the Sexual Contract: Beyond correspondence between novel and nation-state)

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초록

The studies of correspondence between novel and nation-state, among
which The Rise of the Novel by Ian Watt is supposed to be the first book, have
flourished for more than twenty years, encouraged by Benedict Anderson’s
and Cathy Davidson’s works. According to them, the novel should come
simultaneously with, or after the foundation of the nation-state, and testify to
its production or the emergence of its subject/citizen.
This paper questions about these prepositions, trying to introduce a new
paradigmatical approach, “between global and transnational historical
approach,” to first novels in transatlantic areas including England and atlantic
coastal areas. In its complex relation to a variety of colonial, post-colonial,
and transnational geopolitics, various cultural practices such as history, traveler’s
tales and epistolary novels can be included in the genre of the novel.
The idea of the sexual contract by Carole Pateman is very useful because it helps
more clearly understand the nature of relation between men and women in the capitalist
reproduction, while the social contract tells about the relation between men
as citizens. Unlike Freud in Totem and Taboo, Zilboorg argues that there were primordial
and violent scenes such as rape before the first sexual contract.
This paper will illuminate that “the rise of the novel” corresponded with the
emergence of the sexual contract. In the so-called first novel Pamela, the heroine
Pamela was threatened to be violated by Mr. B., and was really even confined
in his cottage. Mary Rowlandson’s The Captive Narrative shows that her
body was confined as an English female captive, and troubled with imaginary
rape by Indians which resulted in the unequal sexual contract between her and
her puritan community in America. However, Leonora Sansay’s Secret
History in an alternative communality, which was not a nation-state, was different
from both novels mentioned above, in that it shows the possibility of
emancipation from their unequal marriage, the sexual contract.
Therefore, it can be argued that “between global and transnational historical
approach” has a possibility to provide a new vision of global sisterhood and
solidarity to recognize globalized women’s violence, and free themselves
from the unequal sexual contract.

영어초록

The studies of correspondence between novel and nation-state, among
which The Rise of the Novel by Ian Watt is supposed to be the first book, have
flourished for more than twenty years, encouraged by Benedict Anderson’s
and Cathy Davidson’s works. According to them, the novel should come
simultaneously with, or after the foundation of the nation-state, and testify to
its production or the emergence of its subject/citizen.
This paper questions about these prepositions, trying to introduce a new
paradigmatical approach, “between global and transnational historical
approach,” to first novels in transatlantic areas including England and atlantic
coastal areas. In its complex relation to a variety of colonial, post-colonial,
and transnational geopolitics, various cultural practices such as history, traveler’s
tales and epistolary novels can be included in the genre of the novel.
The idea of the sexual contract by Carole Pateman is very useful because it helps
more clearly understand the nature of relation between men and women in the capitalist
reproduction, while the social contract tells about the relation between men
as citizens. Unlike Freud in Totem and Taboo, Zilboorg argues that there were primordial
and violent scenes such as rape before the first sexual contract.
This paper will illuminate that “the rise of the novel” corresponded with the
emergence of the sexual contract. In the so-called first novel Pamela, the heroine
Pamela was threatened to be violated by Mr. B., and was really even confined
in his cottage. Mary Rowlandson’s The Captive Narrative shows that her
body was confined as an English female captive, and troubled with imaginary
rape by Indians which resulted in the unequal sexual contract between her and
her puritan community in America. However, Leonora Sansay’s Secret
History in an alternative communality, which was not a nation-state, was different
from both novels mentioned above, in that it shows the possibility of
emancipation from their unequal marriage, the sexual contract.
Therefore, it can be argued that “between global and transnational historical
approach” has a possibility to provide a new vision of global sisterhood and
solidarity to recognize globalized women’s violence, and free themselves
from the unequal sexual contract.

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