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Ⅰ. 서론 4

Ⅱ. 해부학적 시선과 지식의 권력화 10

Ⅲ. 흑인 여성의 몸과 문화적 구성 26

Ⅳ. 스펙터클한 인종 전시와 타자화 41

Ⅴ. 결론 55

Works Cited 58

ABSTRACT 62

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Suzan-Lori Parks points out in her short essay "Possession"(4) that one of her tasks as a playwright is -through literature and the special strange relationship between theater and real life- to locate the ancestral burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones sing, and write it down. Parks has to dig deeper in history and through all the layers of blood in oder to reach the bones of her ancestors. The bones are epistemological signs to be dug up: if discovered, they will "tell us what was, is, will be"(5) and remember the scattered body of history. This may be the most honest way to speak about the performative recovery of lost histories as mimicry or an actual resurrection of the lost. The found remains remember the suffering of the black and it is the archives and witness about the history of exploitation. In short, the body of the black means a text recording a history of the black.

Venus tells the story of Saartjie Baartman, a woman who had a tragic life under imperialism in the 19th century. Parks revives Saartjie Baartman as the Venus in her work in oder to resist and criticise under Western imperialism. The pursuit of Parks in Venus is that she looks back on the past, unearths and rewrites the buried history of the black. The Venus' body implicites the traces of 19th-century racial ideology, but it is a subject that embodies the meaning of resistance to this dominant discourse. The body-subject consists of the corporeal materiality.

The matter of the body-subject is an important theme because it deconstructs the hierarchical meaning of body. So I focus on the corporeality of the black female and explore the ideological materiality. In Venus, the anatomy of the black female is used dramatically. The process of dissection is similar to a detailed analysis of revealing the history of the black through looking into the interior body from the bones of ancestors.

The purpose of this thesis is to criticise the invisibly dominant power on the process of dissecting the black female and to examine how the discourse of white supremacy functions to construct the race under subtle imperialism. I examine the effects of ideology on dissecting the body of the black female and explore the new interpretations about race by digging through the history of the black. In Venus, it doesn't need a complex discourse in connection with a biological hierarchy down to black women from the longitudinal position in the race.

The body of a black woman is deprived in the beautiful and romantic status and it becomes an object of anatomical study. The Venus' naked painful body embodies the social rule and class. Her body is to be oppressed and controlled. For the ideology is engraved on the body. The body of the black female is dissected subtly and even undermined by the colonial gaze. The Venus' body is the space carving the black historical discourse and in the domination of power within the ideology of racism.

Race has been a profound determinant of one's political rights, one's location in the labor market, and indeed one's sense of identity. Race is an obvious and complex phenomenon. Everyone knows what race is, through everyone has a different opinion as to how many racial groups there are, what they are called, and who belongs in what specific racial categories. A cursory glance at American history reveals that the United States has been an extremely color-conscious society. While racial minority groups have been treated differently, all can bear witness to the tragic consequences of racial oppression. Racial oppression has hardly vanished, but conflicts over race recede as past reforms are institutionalized. Such an intense ebb and flow in the politics of race truly begs for interpretation. So I explore the meaning for a broader understanding of race not only social and political relationships such as ethnicity or class, but also theory construction and analysis. I attempt to criticise the race theories and to explain the differences among peoples on the basis of culture and environment.

In conclusion, I examine the attempts to express of racism and resistance against the dominant discourse in various parts from Venus. Race is constantly modified in accordance with the cultural norms and subtly changing each era. Racial stereotype defines some groups that rely on the over-generalized phenomenon. In other words, the race is formed by the power of social relations rather than natural or genetic factors. The Venus' body is the place for the active resistance against white supremacy and seems to reveal another hidden discourse through the process of dissecting. I criticise against oppression and violence as the strategy of colonialism like the culturally universal and natural phenomenon. In this way, Venus exposes about the reality of suffering and pain, just fiction, but the fiction is toward the truth.

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