『제스처 인생』에 나타난 초민족적 정체성 구성에 대한 연구 (A Study of forming Transnational Identity in A Gesture Life)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국비교문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 비교문학 / 44호 / 139 ~ 163페이지
· 저자명 : 지봉근

초록

As globalization of the world extends wider and becomes faster around
the globe, the legal/illegal migration of people from peripheries to
metropolises is enormously increasing. Peoples from the Third World try to
move into metropolitan areas to find out more opportunities to get jobs and
education despite of higher barriers of national borders. While the encounter
between different cultures, languages occurs more often, the need to prepare
to conceive differences without prejudice is growing. In the mean time,
many of minorities from the Third World feel so difficult and confused to
adjust and assimilate to metropolitan dominant cultures that they can not
give up their own languages and cultures and transform their ethnic/national
identities rapidly and easily. In this writing, I will explore the possibilities
of forming transnational identities to minorities by studying the theories
about constantly changing identity construction of postcolonial world and
reading a novel by Korean American writer.
In Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Franklin Kurohata has lived in an
affluent suburban area called Bedley Run as a Japanese American
concealing his Korean origin. Since Hata is widely known as an example
of good citizen in town, most neighbors call him Doc Hata and welcome
him. As he ran Sunny Medical supply, everybody called him Doc. Since
Hata settled down in this town, he has been willing to assimilate to white
dominant culture. As he always tries to identify him with white people, it
seems that he succeeds to assimilate to white culture. But in the depth of
his subconsciousness there has been the trauma after the Pacific War related
to the memory of Kkutaeh, a Korean sex slave(a comfort woman). In his own story Hata presents Kkutaeh as his beloved, an imposed sex slave by
combined demand of Japanese imperial army and the patriarchal system in
Joseon Dynasty based on Confucianism. The memory of Kkutaeh's tragic
death in Hata's mind often appears as a ghost and disturbs him in
identification with dominant white culture. Sunny, Hata's adopted daughter
from Korea conflicts with Hata's patriarchal authority and hypocrisy to
white society and finally makes him realize how to make true relationships
with people around him and how to construct appropriate transnational
identity in the age of globalization.

영어초록

As globalization of the world extends wider and becomes faster around
the globe, the legal/illegal migration of people from peripheries to
metropolises is enormously increasing. Peoples from the Third World try to
move into metropolitan areas to find out more opportunities to get jobs and
education despite of higher barriers of national borders. While the encounter
between different cultures, languages occurs more often, the need to prepare
to conceive differences without prejudice is growing. In the mean time,
many of minorities from the Third World feel so difficult and confused to
adjust and assimilate to metropolitan dominant cultures that they can not
give up their own languages and cultures and transform their ethnic/national
identities rapidly and easily. In this writing, I will explore the possibilities
of forming transnational identities to minorities by studying the theories
about constantly changing identity construction of postcolonial world and
reading a novel by Korean American writer.
In Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Franklin Kurohata has lived in an
affluent suburban area called Bedley Run as a Japanese American
concealing his Korean origin. Since Hata is widely known as an example
of good citizen in town, most neighbors call him Doc Hata and welcome
him. As he ran Sunny Medical supply, everybody called him Doc. Since
Hata settled down in this town, he has been willing to assimilate to white
dominant culture. As he always tries to identify him with white people, it
seems that he succeeds to assimilate to white culture. But in the depth of
his subconsciousness there has been the trauma after the Pacific War related
to the memory of Kkutaeh, a Korean sex slave(a comfort woman). In his own story Hata presents Kkutaeh as his beloved, an imposed sex slave by
combined demand of Japanese imperial army and the patriarchal system in
Joseon Dynasty based on Confucianism. The memory of Kkutaeh's tragic
death in Hata's mind often appears as a ghost and disturbs him in
identification with dominant white culture. Sunny, Hata's adopted daughter
from Korea conflicts with Hata's patriarchal authority and hypocrisy to
white society and finally makes him realize how to make true relationships
with people around him and how to construct appropriate transnational
identity in the age of globalization.

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