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학술저널
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이신영 (이화여자대학교)
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한국현대영미소설학회 현대영미소설 현대영미소설 제29권 제2호
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2022.9
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217 - 243 (27page)

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Yaa Gyasi in her latest novel Transcendent Kingdom (2020) illuminates a shrinking Ghanaian family endeavoring to survive in seemingly post-racial contemporary American society. Noticeable about the novel is that it does not seem to offer a solution for its protagonist and narrator Gifty, given that she eventually concedes that neither her scientific knowledge nor reflection on evangelical religion alone clearly expounds on the catalysts and repercussions of her brother’s death induced by his opioid addiction and her mother’s depression. More attention needs to be paid to the impossibility of elucidating the fundamental causes of her family’s agony in order to interpret it as more than an ineluctable tragedy, since Gifty gradually becomes willing to rely on others like Katherine and Han. Taking such implicative importance of further analyzing the protagonist’s failure of “mak[ing] meaning” as a point of departure (Gyasi 198), I in this paper seek to shed light on the complicated relationship between Gifty and her mother which is replete with mental sufferings mainly based on the conceptualization of affect advanced by several prominent scholars, such as Brian Massumi and Sara Ahmed. I specifically construe Gifty’s epiphany that her scientific and/or religious approach makes Nana’s death and the Black Mamba’s depression more inexplicable as an epitome of the affective dimensions of race. In light of the diverse and even ambivalent affective facets of race, I ultimately suggest that depression ironically functions as a cornerstone for subversion which repudiates societal standards of when and how they are supposed to be (made) happy in contemporary society.

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