『초당』과『동양, 서양으로 가다』에 나타난 강용흘의 코스모폴리타니즘
Cosmopolitanism of Younghill Kang in The Grass Roof and East Goes West
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This paper studies Younghill Kang’s two autobiographical novels, The Grass Roof and East Goes West focusing on his cosmopolitanism. His persona in the novel, Chung Pa Han, gets to own transnational consciousness toward America when he aspires to it as an ideal modern civilization which can free Korea from its bondage to new Japan. Even if his transnational consciousness toward America changes from aspiration to skepticism when he sees the dualism between its proclaimed ideals and concrete historical realities, America is always in his mind as the leading Western country from which he has to learn the ways to realize himself and to regain Korea’s independence. When he goes to America for a direct search for the possibilities, he brings his own learning and values from his upbringing in Korea as the measuring rod to Western civilization. This transnational consciousness toward Korea rarely leaves his mind during his stay in America and becomes the criterion for interpreting and evaluating Western civilization. What Younghill Kang pursues is a vision of hybrid cosmopolitanism. It means, first, to take roots in your own country but to have an open viewpoint toward any other countries, and, second, to come and go over the boundaries freely enough to possess a fluent identity, and, third, to try to create an alternative culture which is based on harmony, affiliation, and hybridity of differences through contacts, crossing, infiltration, engrafting, or transplantation. These ideas embodied in Younghill Kang’s two novels of the early 20th century are very popular ones among literary scholars and critics at the moment of the 21st century. In this sense, Younghill Kang can be said to be one of the pioneering writers who have looked ahead in Zeitgeist.
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This paper studies Younghill Kang’s two autobiographical novels, The Grass Roof and East Goes West focusing on his cosmopolitanism. His persona in the novel, Chung Pa Han, gets to own transnational consciousness toward America when he aspires to it as an ideal modern civilization which can free Korea from its bondage to new Japan. Even if his transnational consciousness toward America changes from aspiration to skepticism when he sees the dualism between its proclaimed ideals and concrete historical realities, America is always in his mind as the leading Western country from which he has to learn the ways to realize himself and to regain Korea’s independence. When he goes to America for a direct search for the possibilities, he brings his own learning and values from his upbringing in Korea as the measuring rod to Western civilization. This transnational consciousness toward Korea rarely leaves his mind during his stay in America and becomes the criterion for interpreting and evaluating Western civilization. What Younghill Kang pursues is a vision of hybrid cosmopolitanism. It means, first, to take roots in your own country but to have an open viewpoint toward any other countries, and, second, to come and go over the boundaries freely enough to possess a fluent identity, and, third, to try to create an alternative culture which is based on harmony, affiliation, and hybridity of differences through contacts, crossing, infiltration, engrafting, or transplantation. These ideas embodied in Younghill Kang’s two novels of the early 20th century are very popular ones among literary scholars and critics at the moment of the 21st century. In this sense, Younghill Kang can be said to be one of the pioneering writers who have looked ahead in Zeitgeist.
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