포스트휴먼과 장애 아동의 신체성 - 아동청소년 SF 서사를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Posthumanism, which invalidates modern humanistic subjects, is useful for critically viewing non-disability-centeredism. In addition, the reproduction of posthumans represented by cyborgs can be directly related to the problem of disability. This study discussed posthuman and disability issues together with children’s SF texts featuring disabled people. Until now, children’s literature works dealing with the narrative of disability have dealt with the story of disabled children in the context of hatred and discrimination. SF works can approach more fundamental questions by reproducing disabled people through posthuman characters. SF narratives, which talk about disability, guide the body of cyborg to be recognized again by disrupting or presenting a completely unfamiliar and new type of disability. In many works, the person with the body of a cyborg is otherized and stigmatized. Although the representation of a future society where beauty or normality is still an important value is somewhat regressive, it paradoxically shows that the disability problem is not simple by rejecting the technological deterministic belief that advances in science and technology can be a solution to all human problems. On the other hand, there are people who overturn the situation and help each other by devising a special way to reverse the physical handicap or invalidate the disability. In this narrative, a person with a disability can affirm his disability and accept it as a positive identity. Recognizing each other’s vulnerability and practicing mutual care is an important task in that all humans are incomplete and vulnerable. This will be the reflection we need when the posthuman of the SF narrative presents the physicality of the disability problemically.