『에드거 헌틀리』에 나타난 국민정체성과 악몽의 역사

National Identity and Nightmarish History in Edgar Huntly

&nbsp;&nbsp;Composed in the wake of and set around the birth of the United States, Charles Brockden Brown&quot;s Edgar Huntly critically addresses the question of the identity of the new nation and its people. An orphan who, like his European double Clithero Edny, has to secure social and economic independence, Huntly embodies young America which had to fashion its national identity ex nihilo, and his journey symbolizes early American history.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Huntly&quot;s journey turns into a nightmare in which he strikes down five native Americans. Huntly&quot;s justification of his killing spree as righteous retribution for Indian hostility appears to advocate the national identity of white America as the rightful owner of the land and endorse American colonialism and imperialism. By throwing Huntly&quot;s flagrant violence into bold relief and making Huntly the American disinherited, however, Brown&quot;s gothic fiction presents America&quot;s founding violence as unforgettable nightmare that haunts its history and implicitly questions the legitimacy of American nationhood and American citizenship.