번역자와 스파이--창래 리의 『원어민』에 나타난 초국가적 아시안 아메리칸 정체성의 형성
Figuring the Transnational Identity of an Asian American Spy through the Metaphor of "Translator" in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker
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Chang-rae Lee, using the metaphor of "translator," introduces the indeterminate landscape of a linguistic and cultural borderland where lack of agency and the act of betrayal on the part of translator and spy, despite the debatable question of its political efficacy, open up the possibility of identity formation of Asian American subjects outside the framework of nation-state. One of the agendas motivating this novel is linguistic in nature, and Henry, caught between two cultures and language, Korean and American, occupies a border position similar to that of the translator. Seeing Henry’s position as a translator not only opens up a possible site for a newly emergent transnational identity as an Asian American but also illuminates the treacherous and slippery nature of language and representation by destabilizing the naturalized idea that the practice of translation is a neutral and transparent negotiation between two languages. As shown in Kwang’s downfall, an Asian immigrant vernacular, a language of cultural borderland and translation is impossible, and this impossibility of cultural translation itself provides the recognition that the linguistic space of borderland is not a site where new identity is produced, but a site where a series of identities are made and unmade, contesting each other. In this novel, what Henry does as a translator is to open up the in-between space as wide as he can, not attempting to seal the gap between two languages and cultures to make a seamless and continuous transmission of meaning and identity. In this wide empty space between the "original" text and the "translation" that he opens up, Henry positions himself as a spy and translator who refuses to serve any particular ethnic or national interest, and antagonizes both dominant and minority formations in the difficulties of his positioning. Henry deals with the father figure in its various personal, linguistic, and cultural forms, with all the emotional and psychological entanglement that such a stance entails.
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