세계 문학과 관계의 시학: 에드윗지 단티켓의 이슬을 밟는 사나이 속에 나타난 공통 공간들

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This paper aims to suggest a new perspective for rethinking the world literature utilizing Édouard Glissant’s theory of commonplace and its theoretical complexities. Though various contemporary theories such as Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” purveys fertile and centralized understanding of the world literature, its asymmetrical and biased perspective adumbrates the third world literature’s uniqueness and the interconnected relations within it. In contrast, Glissant suggests such concepts as opacity, depth, chaos-monde, errancy, poetics of relation, and totality representing multifaceted diversity and its literary relations in Caribbean literature heavily mediated by traumatic historical atrocities (i.e. repetitive tyrannies, colonialism, diaspora, etc.) to delineate a future-perfect redemption. He also suggests archipelago as commonplace (lieux communs) that as a form of mediation reflect Caribbean history and geography as well as its literary commonality that pave a new way to the understanding of the world literature. Also, this paper closely reads and analyzes Edwidge Danticat’s decentralized postmodern or postcolonial novel, The Dew Breaker, in order to recount Haitians’ traumatic experiences and possibilities of their redemption during (post)tyrannical and (post)colonial era under the lens of Glissant’s theory.

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