다문화시대, 동화의 서사

Abstract

Suddenly, multiculturalism became our times’ important issue. It has seated besides our lives. children’s literature like education are directly connected to children’s lives. I’t has been about ten years since Korean fables were explored properly. Since then, Donghwa(fiction for children) attempted to realize the multicultural life. The fist stage is narratives of observation and experience. In narratives, characters living around immigrant workers experience their lives. This observation is concluded to compassion. In the next stage, which is the narrative of experience and growth, a child of an immigrant worker underwent the realities in person. These are mostly about the agony of parent generation and growth through the obstacles. The most progressive stage shows the self-introspection through realities with characters’acute perspectives. As we see, political imagination keeps working even in children’s literature. This is the time to establish the proper multiculturalism beyond the name only stage.