탈식민적 텍스트의 혼종성을 어떻게 번역할 것인가: 토니 모리슨의 『 자비 』(A Mercy)를 중심으로

Abstract

This research analyzes linguistic heterogeneity in Toni Morrison's A Mercy(2008) and explores how to deliver it in translation into Korean. As she has a keen self-consciousness as an African American novelist and tries to represent her racial identity through her poetic and experimental style and language, translating her works requires particular consideration of cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. She has continuously searched for ways to restore black cultural tradition, and to represent the experiences and histories of racial minorities in American society in her literature. Therefore, it is necessary to consider how the cultural and historical contexts in her works influence her unique style and language, and attempt to reflect these elements in the target text. In A Mercy, Morrison's experimental style and non-standard language use in the main narrative of Florens, a slave girl is noteworthy not only to show the historical and social context surrounding her, but also to construct her identity in relation with society. Therefore, in handling the source text with heterogeneity, the concept of foreginizing translation suggested by Lawrence Venuti could be helpful for it. The purpose of her peculiar language use can be said as an attempt to mark the trace of black struggle and resistance against the assimilation into the dominant culture by force. Venuti’s minoritizing translation could be an effectual method to reveal the existence of remainders which do not conform to the standard language, as Morrison intended. The black culture is still a subgenre which is not yet well-known or familiar, and is sometimes even disregarded in Korea. The introduction of heterogeneity in Morrison’s works in the process of translation could lead readers to be more conscious and understanding of differences.