해외명작의 창작판소리화와 정전의 탈중심화 -창작판소리 <억척가>(2011)와 <어느 이방인의 노래>(2015)를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper intends to study the Pansori creation of the Western canon, which may be called as one stream of the Korean performing arts. It has closely observed the trend of transfiguration that is realized when the Western canons created through “choice and exclusion” are translated into and performed by the Korean Pansori creators, based on the cultural translation theory. In the process of translating the Western canon into Korean Pansori, the translators had to depict political consciousness at some point, inevitably. Due to this, a decentering of the Western canon was achieved, and the cultural translation theory was very effective for further discussion. This paper studied “Ukchuk-ga” and “A Stranger’s Song” by Pansori Creation Team “Ja”, and these works are created into Pansori from “Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder” by Bertolt Brecht, and “Bon Voyage, Mr. President!” by Gabriel García Márquez, respectively. The creators of these works, in their process of translating the Western canon into Pansori, have shaped up the diaspora of women in Asia while emphasizing the diaspora of women in Latin America. This was a decentering of the canons by the male authors into multi-culturalism and “the issues of the local women”, while creating “plural canons” that can be symphasized by many women in this global era. The creators of “Ukchuk-ga” and “A Stranger’s Song” can be described as having actualizing the “transnational sensitivity” of the women in diaspora in this global era with a deadlock of diverse cultures, into a Pansori texture, while creating yet another unique cultural value. This paper has evaluated that the cultural translation activities of these creators have realized the cosmopolitanism with a lower layer's cultural sensitivity, that opens a door to communicate and understand among people from different nationalities and background.