현대시에 투영된 이방인과 다문화

Abstract

As per Karatani Kojin's indication about modern literature, Korean modern literature was formed centering on the trinity of ‘country= capital=nation’ and has been growing thereafter in the context of a nation-state/a single race. This historical context acted as a basic condition when modern literature imagines community, human, and reality. So to speak, in modern literature, communities occurred within the boundary of the nation and the state, humans were understood as a synonym of citizens or nation, and reality referred to diverse events and accidents occurring in the boundary of the nation and the state. However, these unconscious premises have been rapidly shrinking recently because maintaining physical distances from 'foreigners' has become impossible because of the appearance of neoliberalism and experiences that go beyond the boundary of the state/nation have been generalized. Neoliberalism erased the traces of the nation/state from both ‘capital’ and ‘labor’ to trigger their global movements. In this time of the wide ranged global movements unprecedented in the history of the world, the appearance of discourses on multiculturalism and tolerance is never an accident. This paper examined the limitations of discourses on multiculturalism and the meaning of the scene where the figuration of ‘foreigners-others’ fails repeatedly centering on the figure of foreigners drawn in Korean modern poetry. This is closely related to the issue of subalterns. This paper critically considered discourses on multiculturalism centering of the false nature of the reality termed ‘multiculturalism’. In addition, a conclusion was drawn indicating that modern poetry repeatedly fails in the figuration of the figure of foreigners because ‘foreigners-others’ are kept being perceived as an extension of the identity-entity.