『젊은 예술가의 초상과 「죽은 사람들」 속 더블린 여성들의 음식 거부와 남성 화자 왜곡의 이중적 역할 (The Male Narrator’s Distorted Narration: Dublin Women’s Denial of Food in James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

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In “The Dead” and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce depicts Dublin women who publicly refuse food. Miss Ivors in “The Dead” and Dante in Portrait, with their socioeconomic privilege of independence, undermine the authority of patriarchs by the act of refusing food. In the discussion of “The Dead,” Margot Norris points out that Joyce’s male narrator often colludes with patriarchal structures, attempting to subordinate women. I observe the same collusion in the Christmas dinner scene in Portrait in which the male narrator sympathizes with the astonishment of little Stephen and the agony of Parnellite men. In such a context, Dublin women’s refusal of food can be a symbolic rejection of expected gender performances. Judith Butler claims gender identity as a performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo. She describes gender identity as the stylized repetition of acts through time and suggests the possibilities of gender transformation being found in the breaking or subversive repetition of gender performance. The refusal of food by Dante and Miss Ivors can also represent a subversive act that disrupts what Butler calls the “stylized repetition of acts” (519). In the end, my paper argues, Joyce compels us to recognize the social oppression women face under patriarchy by revealing the patriarchal perspectives.

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In “The Dead” and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce depicts Dublin women who publicly refuse food. Miss Ivors in “The Dead” and Dante in Portrait, with their socioeconomic privilege of independence, undermine the authority of patriarchs by the act of refusing food. In the discussion of “The Dead,” Margot Norris points out that Joyce’s male narrator often colludes with patriarchal structures, attempting to subordinate women. I observe the same collusion in the Christmas dinner scene in Portrait in which the male narrator sympathizes with the astonishment of little Stephen and the agony of Parnellite men. In such a context, Dublin women’s refusal of food can be a symbolic rejection of expected gender performances. Judith Butler claims gender identity as a performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo. She describes gender identity as the stylized repetition of acts through time and suggests the possibilities of gender transformation being found in the breaking or subversive repetition of gender performance. The refusal of food by Dante and Miss Ivors can also represent a subversive act that disrupts what Butler calls the “stylized repetition of acts” (519). In the end, my paper argues, Joyce compels us to recognize the social oppression women face under patriarchy by revealing the patriarchal perspectives.

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