장애 관련 아동서사문학에 나타나는 윤리성과 전복의 상상력

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the texts and to explore the Ethicality and Revolutionary Imagination of Children’s Literature Related with Disability in the 2000s. In order to do this, I study the materiality of the Others and the conflicts between the characters in the texts. The conflict between the characters occurs when the disabled character starts to express his or her materiality through his(her) own desire. In the texts that the conflict between characters is not serious, the disabled character tends to be predictable by the non-disabled or the adult characters. When the personality of the disabled character is evaluated as good, conflicts do not occur especially. In the texts that the disabled character’s desire is not revealed, the conflict is resolved more easily and writers can pursue their ethic clearly to children readers. In theses texts, it is a subject of the texts that Non-disabled children should relieve their negative feelings toward disabled children by eliminating prejudice against them and be aware of their disability positively. This assumes that the disabled are good children and this is invariable. In 『Minwoo, you can do it』and 『The pianist with four fingures』, disabled characters do not make conflicts with non-disabled and adult characters, even though they reveal their desires. The desire of Disabled characters is revealed without conflict and supported by the adult characters because that desire is allowed by the adult characters. On the other hand, Sua and Jae-hyun of 『It’s a little different from me』and 『Byuki』make conflicts by desiring what is not allowed by the adult characters and doing that the adult characters can not accept. In this texts, the conflict is not resolved easily and communication is the essential ingredients for solution of conflict. So, the communication process is a ethic. Ethics is based on understanding of the human being, so we should understand disable person is a being that has their own desire and materiality. Positive perceptions about disabled persons is not important than we recognize that disabled persons is the Subject that have their desire and materiality. Ethic is perceiving the conflict as a matter of the Subject and the Subject of human society and opening the communication possibility. So, the texts that is revealed the disabled person’s desire and materiality mean a lot to Korean children’s literature because that express ethic of communication and the communication possibility.