지역성의 역사 - 윌리엄 칼로스 윌리엄즈와 옥타비오 파스의 시학

"History of the locality": the Poetics of William Carlos Williams and Octavio Paz

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper aims to prove how the works of Williams and Paz are interrelated beyond the boundary between language and country. Since Williams had a strong background of Spanish and Latin America, it is possible to compare the intimate similarity between Williams and Paz. The two writers find their literary similarity and translate each others&quot; poems. Furthermore, both writers strongly seek to construct a genuine American identity including North, Central, and South America by emphasizing "locality" and "history." For them, "locality" which is the basis of both writers&quot; writings is closely connected with rewriting the history written from Euro-centric perspectives. Through the "history of the locality," both writers try to search for their own self which is divided and lost by absence of contact with marginality and otherness.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Significantly, the "history of locality," which both writers assert, represents universality beyond the limit of narrow-minded regionalism or nationalism. This fact clearly appears in Williams&quot; and Paz&quot;s major prose titled In the American Grain and The Labyrinth of Solitude. In these books, both writers strongly emphasize the indigenous language in order to establish the literary and cultural subjectivity of America. They point out American English and Mexican instead of British English and Spanish in which the notion of "colonial imitation" resides. Ultimately, "history of the locality" becomes an essence of both Williams&quot; and Paz&quot;s poetics.