『내가 죽어 누워있을 때』 에 나타나는 해체된 인륜의 공동체와 애디의 여성적 공간으로서의 코라 연구

Study on Deconstructed Ethical Community and Khôra as Addie’s Feminine Space in As I Lay Dying

This paper aims to closely read and analyze Addie’s monologue and its feminine bodily space in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying utilizing such ideas as Georg Hegel’s ‘ethical community’ and ‘Khôra,’ Plato first proposed in his Timaeus and then theorists, Julia Kristeva or Jacque Derrida, adopted to unfold feminine bodily space. This paper consists of three parts. The first part of the paper investigates how Addie, dying mother lying in coffin, is engaged in and also decontruct patriarchal family structure, Hegel viewed as an ethical community, by proposing her inverted ideas of life, death, and love. Then, this paper advances to theoretical exploration of the idea of ‘Khôra’ in Western discourses focusing on Jacque Derrida’s understanding of Khôra as feminine space of unnamable name and Julian Kristeva’s semiotic understanding of Khôra. The paper argues that Khôra denotes Addie’s existential choices to build her own feminine space embodying her bodily experience. In the last part, the paper delineates how Dewey Dell, Addie’s daughter, builds her own Khôra through bridging her experience to Addie’s.