타자의 고통 재현의 양가성 - 수지 곽 김의 한국전쟁 시의 경우
Ambivalence in the Representation of Others’ Suffering: Suji Kwock Kim’s Korean War Poetry
0
조회
0
다운로드
3
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This essay discusses the political and aesthetic significance in Suji Kwock Kim’s description of Koreans’ suffering as a way of reviving the Korean War, conventionally referred to as the “Forgotten War” in American society. The war serves as key subject matter in her first book, Notes from the Divided Country (2003), which received much critical acclaim, including the 2002 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. In her Korean War poems, Suji Kwock Kim represents Koreans’ collective suffering through the crystallizing images of violated bodies and the old battlefield hidden in contemporary Seoul. The essay focuses on the potentially ambivalent effects of her aesthetic strategy of provoking American readers’ humanitarian feelings toward Korean victims as well as the risk of re-inscribing stereotypical portrayals of ethnic minorities and their foreign lands. The multiple readings lead to the argument that Kim’s war poems should not be construed simply as an attempt to familiarize American readers with an old Third World tragedy. They also capture Kim’s position as a second generation Korean American where the dualism between Same and Other is more subtle and complicated. In this regard, I would argue that Kim’s war poems reveal the possibility that contemporary approaches to the more than 60-year-old “Forgotten War” can still create a site for debatable political and literary concerns.
Abstract
This essay discusses the political and aesthetic significance in Suji Kwock Kim’s description of Koreans’ suffering as a way of reviving the Korean War, conventionally referred to as the “Forgotten War” in American society. The war serves as key subject matter in her first book, Notes from the Divided Country (2003), which received much critical acclaim, including the 2002 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. In her Korean War poems, Suji Kwock Kim represents Koreans’ collective suffering through the crystallizing images of violated bodies and the old battlefield hidden in contemporary Seoul. The essay focuses on the potentially ambivalent effects of her aesthetic strategy of provoking American readers’ humanitarian feelings toward Korean victims as well as the risk of re-inscribing stereotypical portrayals of ethnic minorities and their foreign lands. The multiple readings lead to the argument that Kim’s war poems should not be construed simply as an attempt to familiarize American readers with an old Third World tragedy. They also capture Kim’s position as a second generation Korean American where the dualism between Same and Other is more subtle and complicated. In this regard, I would argue that Kim’s war poems reveal the possibility that contemporary approaches to the more than 60-year-old “Forgotten War” can still create a site for debatable political and literary concerns.
참고문헌 (24)
- 김구슬, "수지 곽 김의 시:분열에서 통합으로", 신영어영문학, (39), pp.13~31 (2008), 신영어영문학회
- 김양순, "아시아계 미국시의 재편성: 캐시 송, 명미 김, 수지 곽 김의 차이를 중심으로", 미국학 논집, 42(3), pp.203~241 (2010), 한국아메리카학회
- Blair, Clay, "The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950-1953" (1987), Times Books
- Brecht, Bertolt, "Brecht on Theatre: the Development of an Aesthetic" (1964), Hill and Wang
- Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, "Dictée" (2001), U of California P
- Chafe, William H, "The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II. 4th ed" (1999), Oxford UP
- Cheng, Anne Anlin, "Melancholy of Race" (2000), Oxford UP
- Hartman, Saidiya V, "Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America" (1997), Oxford UP
- Huggan, Graham, "The Postcolonial Exotic" (2001), Routledge
- 장근영, "The Divided Self, Body, and Country: Symbols and Imageries in the Poems of Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim", 영미문화, 8(1), pp.215~232 (2008), 한국영미문화학회
- Kim, Suji Kwock, "Notes from the Divided Country" (2003), Louisiana State UP
- Klein, Kerwin Lee, "On the Emergency of Memory in Historical Discourse", Representations, 69, pp.127~150 (2000)
- 이일환, "High-flying Notes from a Korean-American Poet: Notes from the Divided Country by Suji Kwock Kim", 영어영문학, 57(3), pp.413~428 (2011), 한국영어영문학회
- Liem, Ramsay, "History, Trauma, and Identity: The Legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans", Amerasia Journal, 29(3), pp.111~129 (2003)
- Lye, Colleen, "Racial Form", Representations, 104(1), pp.92~101 (2008)
- Millett, Allan R, "Introduction to the Korean War", The Journal of Military History, 65(4), pp.921~935 (2001)
- Pickering, Michael Pickering, "Trauma, Discourse, and Communicative Limits", Critical Discourse Studies, 6(4), pp.237~249 (2009)
- Schrecker, Ellen, "McCarthyism and the Korean War, In War and Democracy", pp.191~215 (2001), M. E. Sharpe
- Sherry, Michael S, "In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s" (1995), Yale UP
- Sontag, Susan, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (2003), Picador
- Truman, Margaret., "Harry S. Truman" (1973), William Morrow & Company, Inc
- Whitfield, Stephen J, "The Culture of the Cold War. 2nd ed" (1996), Johns Hopkins UP