최근 아동청소년판타지문학에 나타난 인물변신 양상 연구

Abstract

Recently, the fantasy of children's and youth literature is different from the existing character transformation. Characters combine with non-human to become new beings such as monster and witch, and the transformed beings are characters who lack something or have more power than human, when viewed as the category of ‘human’ defined in modern society. First, their transformation is not an expression of an individual's repressed desires, but a situation in which the individual has to bear the contradictions of an abnormal society. It was inevitable situation, not his own choice. However, the protagonists are reborn as main agent who pioneer a new life through the process of ‘awakening’ or ‘choosing’ about their transformation. Second, they do not go from non-human to human unlike the character transformation in the previous fantasy. They live in union with non-humans, either living as monsters, or realizing that the training between humans and witches continues for the rest of their lives. Third, the transformed human does not return to human form. Therefore they become nomads. These works suggest that the transformational characters of postmodern narratives are trends while living as a nomad at a distance from the existing society. Lastly, the aspect of children's and youth fantasy literature is interpreted as an attempt to meta-reflect on children and youth defined in literature by appropriating the genre of children's and youth literature itself. Most of children's and youth literature moves within the norms of modern narratives of growth, but since the number of works that have doubts about the system to which they belong is increasing, continuous attention is required.