Queequegとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Queequeg (複数形 Queequegs)

1. A person, fictional character, or other foil who literally or symbolically fulfills one or more of the roles Queequeg played in Moby-Dick such as the noble savage, Entwicklungsroman guru or exemplar, or racially-inflected spear carrier role.
   • 1969, Whitehead, John Anthony; Enoch, Morgan David, “Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?”, in Mental Health, volume 28 (Autumn), London: National Association for Mental Health, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, pages 22–24:

     This type of programme envisaged might do something towards combating the 'Queequeg Syndrome', which is an induced psychiatric illness, due to the patient being treated as abnormal. The cause is similar to that of institutional neurosis, but it affects patients outside hospital and is due to the attitudes of family, general practitioner, community workers and society. The patient is now expected to be more normal than normal.

   • 1982, Rodriguez, Richard, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez‎^[1], Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

     After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

   • 2000, Stein, Suzanne B., The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Reading of Moby Dick, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 36:

     For Ishmael, unparented and self-abhoring, accession requires that he find, then lose himself in a Queequeg, preparatory to finding, then losing himself in an Ahab, both of whom he will, at the end of the adventure, kill.

派生語

• Queequeg syndrome