토니 모리슨의 『낙원』에 나타난 소외 극복

Overcoming Alienation in Toni Morrison's Paradise

This paper examines the healing process of trauma by dividing the overcoming alienation of Ruby and the overcoming alienation of convent. In Paradise, Morrison depicts the episodes occurring in and around an all-black town in Oklahoma, Ruby and a neighboring convent. This novel deals with some of this contemporary concern with African American identity in a narrative depicting a town in the 1970s. The strict town of Ruby and the amorphous convent are opposed to each other until Ruby's nine men decide to clear out the convent of its five female inhabitants. After the massacre of the five women, their bodies disappear, and the town people must make sense of the attack and the subsequent changes. The 8-rock people of Ruby interpret the convent attack through their own points of view and show they will get a new future after realizing and confronting their trauma. It means the massacre of the convent em ancipates the five women and the sacrifice of the convent women can make people in Ruby confront their trauma. Also, this paper studies that an unsolved traumatic African American heritage must be confronted and solved, in ways realizing their identities, if black people are to escape the cycles of trauma and violence that plague their communities.