論文

査読有り
2017年

Patriotism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage

CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
  • Raphael LAMBERT

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開始ページ
175
終了ページ
192
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1080/00111619.2016.1178100
出版者・発行元
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

This essay places the issue of patriotism at the heart of Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990). The first part looks at the three political systems against which the young protagonist, Rutherford Calhoun, is going to forge his own political beliefs while aboard the slaver the Republic. And the second part argues that Calhoun's unexpected claim toward the end of the story that he is a patriot can be best understood when compared to the decision of the nameless protagonist in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) to come out of his hiding place and be a responsible, active citizen. Calhoun and the Invisible Man's belief in the values of equality and tolerance on which the nation was built, as well as their eagerness to play their part to make it work, exemplify, the essay concludes, what political theorists call constitutional patriotism.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2016.1178100
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000400008800001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1080/00111619.2016.1178100
  • ISSN : 0011-1619
  • eISSN : 1939-9138
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000400008800001

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