ISSN 1229-3814 The Journal of Modern British & American 현대영미어학 제35 1호 Language & Literature Vol 35. No 1, Feb. 2017 (2017년 2) 69-106 http://dx.doi.org/10.21084/jmball.2017.02.35.1.69 넬라 라슨 퀵샌드와 패싱로 살펴본 진정한 여성성 담론 검 성모 미지에 대한 저항 샛 별 (화여대학) Moon, Set-Byul. 2017. “Rejecting the Culture of True Womanhood and the Image of the Black Madonna in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing.” The Journal of Modern British & American Language & Literature 35.1:69-106. This paper explores how Nella Larsen, a minority female writer of mixed race and one of the most significant writers in the Harlem Renaissance, attempted to secure her inner space against multiple layers of discursive violence both in white society and in the androcentric, middle-class black community in an early twentieth-century America saturated with racism and sexism. The culture of “True Womanhood,” signified as the four womanly virtues, was one of the most predominantly masculine ideologies that suppressed not only white women in nineteenth-century Victorian England but also black women in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Centering on Larsen’s two novels, Quicksand and Passing, published in 1928 and 1929 respectively, this paper attempts to contemplate the critical trajectories of Larsen’s literary rejection of the black ideal of True Womanhood, so-called “Black Victoria” or “Black Madonna,” by studying her three mulatta protagonists. (Ewha Womans University) Key Words: Nella Larsen, Quicksand, Passing, True Black Womanhood, Black Madonna Ⅰ. 들어가며 본는 영 빅토리아 시대에서 형성된 가정성(domesticity) 진정한 여성 성(True Womanhood) 담론 20세기 미 할렘르네상스 학 선 중 한 명 넬라 라슨(Nella Larsen, 1891-1964) 학세에까지 어떠한 영 향 끼 며, 어떠한 방식로 라슨 백 남성 중심 담론 억압에