همایش رویکردهای میان رشته ای به آموزش زبان، ادبیات و مطالعات ترجمه

صفحه اصلی / پنجمین همایش رویکردهای میان رشته ای به آموزش زبان، ادبیات و مطالعات ترجمه

Two Lacanian Big Others versus Each Other in the Dialect Poetry of Dunbar and McKay

نویسندگان :

Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh¹ Mahnoosh Vahdati²

1- Ferdowsi Mashhad 2- Khayyaam

کلمات کلیدی :

Paul Laurence Dunbar،Jouissance،Claude McKay,،Jealouissance,،Jacques Lacan،Fantasy,،Castration

چکیده :

Abstract This study focuses on using Ebonics as a Negro dialect in the poems of two African American poets, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Claude McKay, as a literary weapon against white society at the time. As the forerunners of the Harlem Renaissance movement, the two poets apply language to rebel against the bigotry and discrimination in white society. Adopting the psychological approach of Jacques Lacan concerning the authority of The Big Other in the symbolic stage, this study explores the ways the poets’ explicit language as the first Big Other aids their narrators in fighting against white society as the second Big Other. It further illustrates how white Americans experience an excessive Jouissance by exerting influence on the blacks through slavery and how enslaved Black people endeavor to find their ultimate Jouissance and lost heaven employing different fantasies. The findings of the study show that how black narrators can find a way to soothe their psyches by clinging to the fantasy of music and faith to escape the burden of white society. Meanwhile, they face a kind of Jealouissance, realizing they lack an object that ‘the other’; as whites, may possess, have deprived them of and then symbolically castrated in between.