타자화 담론의 문화정치학 :『태풍』

Cultural Politics of the 'Discourse of Otherness' in The Tempest

The purpose of this paper is to provide a map of cultural politics of 'the discourse of otherness' inscribed in The Tempest. Postcolonial readings of this play have emphasized Caliban's enslavement and exploitation, neglecting the repression of the white European woman Miranda Feminist readings, on the other hand, have focused on the marginalized absent female characters of the play, Caliban's mother Sycorax, Miranda's mother, and Claribel who was unwillingly married off to the ruler of Tunis. My reading attempts to combine the two readings by examining both the sexist and the racist discourses working in the text Prospero's accusation of Caliban's attempted rape of Miranda legitimizes his enslavement of Caliban, the racial other Miranda's body can be the site of postcolonial resistance from the perspective of Caliban In Prospero's project of regaining his political power in Milan, Miranda, the white European woman, is used as a sexual bait. She is repressed under the patriarchal authority, and threatened by sexual attack by the native as well. It cannot he proclaimed that Shakespeare supported the sexist or the racist discourses of his age Shakespeare rather shows that the racist and the sexist discourses are not based on the inferiority of the others, but derived from differences and the controlling group's fear and anxiety of the effacement of those differences.