<완득이>에 나타난 다문화 사회에서의 ‘차이’ 형상화 연구

Abstract

Multicultural society is difficult to become homogeneous because of the coexistence of plentiful reality and various existence. Therefore ‘difference’ is emphasized. ‘Difference’ is important in order to overcome the traditional ontology and is respected since it contained intrinsic factors to be able to reveal every experience. ‘Difference’ is manifold. In 『Wandeuki』existences, objects, words etc everything has ‘difference’ and ‘difference’ makes manifold by itself. In this novel church is not fixed space. Sometimes it is a shelter for foreign labors and sometimes become dancing studio. Church is a ‘Atopos’ space. The words such as explicit language, abuse, slang of characters don’t offend people. On the contrary these words work as communication language and reveal the ‘difference’. The characters, meanwhile, play roles forming mutual identity regardless of age and nationality. Wandeuk doesn’t live to his father’s will and go his own way. Wandeuk’s father admits his son’s life since he sees Wandeuk’s passion. Wandeuk’s mother, who married through international marriage, is not a pitiful and weak existence but an independent one who exerts her rights and obligation proudly. Wandeuk accepts his mother as she is. ‘Ddongju’, Wandeuk’s school teacher, has various chatacters such as human rights activist for foreign labors, citizen living with neighborhood and teacher understading students words. Likewise, the difference itself of characters become not otherness but subjectivity and shows that each character is mutual identity through change and communication among difference. In conclusion, a role model of multi-cultural society that suggested in 『Wandeuki』is the one as a mutual identity who recognizes the othernized ‘difference’ hidden in oneself and the ‘difference’ of the others.