「中國人 거리」에 나타난 移住의 想像力

Abstract

A Study on Diaspora Imagination of The Chinese Street Oh, Youn-ho This study aims to consider a girl's the diaspora identity and multicultural feature that in O, Jung-hui's The Chinese Street. The girl experienced the Korean War and grew to a woman. To analyze diaspora experiences that are in ‘space' and about ‘the other', this study reveals the literature sensitivity of Korean war represented in O, Jung-hui's novels. O, Jung-hui gives shape to the war-experiences war represented in A childhood' garden, The Chinese Street. A Spirit of Wind. Especially The Chinese Street foregrounds various refugees’ experiences after the Korean War. A girl moves to unfamiliar city that named In-Chun. She sees spaces that give a hint of Korean War and meets with various human races. Her identity is constituted as ambiguous-being and imperfection-sex. Just she dreams return of the self-womb as the source of being. That means the diaspora identity to reveal the fear in multicultural-space and the rejection to the other. The Chinese Street throws a light on politic-diaspora, racial dis- crimination, rhetoric-paranoia, exotic-desire, and violence to express the cultural politics about woman and human-being in modern state experienced a war.