혼혈 입양 내러티브로서의 『만 가지 슬픔』
Transracial Adoptee Narratives in Ten Thousand Sorrows
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This paper deals with the discourses of complex identity politics involved in the transracial and transnational female body. By groping into the borderlands and the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic predicaments, this paper argues that Elizabeth Kim’s adoption discourse challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a profound discourse of a female body with a keen awareness of the complex interrelationship of race, nation and gender. Korea has recently been vigorous in recognizing overseas Korean adoptee writers, with their transplanted and untranslated life stories. Transnational and transracial adoptees’ struggle to understand their origins ultimately deepens readers’ understanding of Korean diasporic existence, and Korea in general. Ten Thousand Sorrows, The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan, is read as a life-based literary narrative, exploring “a poetics of Experience.” This life-testimony grapples with the meaning of Korea as an orphaned nation, and the adoption as the quiet migration and “queer diaspora.” Transracial and transnational bodies work as “maps of the relation between power and identity.”Korea has persisted in the deeply embedded ideas of “ethnic nationalism” and the patriarchal Confucian ideologies. Korean adoptees of mixed blood have been considered as the embodiment of a national shame in the turmoil of the tragedy of Korean national history. This narrative of Elizabeth, a Korean transracial and transnational female adoptee deeply explores her diasporic existence and the marks of trauma on her body caused by the victimization of women. It also deals with the questions of misogynist discourse of male supremacy from both Korean national structure and imperialistic white male tradition. Elizabeth suffers from a state of not belonging, racial dislocations, and the ensuing untranslability of her diasporic life. By focusing on how she overcomes this predicament, this paper proposes the positive legacy from adoptees’ incessant struggle for the future Korean society intermittent with the questions of transraciality and transnationality.
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This paper deals with the discourses of complex identity politics involved in the transracial and transnational female body. By groping into the borderlands and the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic predicaments, this paper argues that Elizabeth Kim’s adoption discourse challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a profound discourse of a female body with a keen awareness of the complex interrelationship of race, nation and gender. Korea has recently been vigorous in recognizing overseas Korean adoptee writers, with their transplanted and untranslated life stories. Transnational and transracial adoptees’ struggle to understand their origins ultimately deepens readers’ understanding of Korean diasporic existence, and Korea in general. Ten Thousand Sorrows, The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan, is read as a life-based literary narrative, exploring “a poetics of Experience.” This life-testimony grapples with the meaning of Korea as an orphaned nation, and the adoption as the quiet migration and “queer diaspora.” Transracial and transnational bodies work as “maps of the relation between power and identity.”Korea has persisted in the deeply embedded ideas of “ethnic nationalism” and the patriarchal Confucian ideologies. Korean adoptees of mixed blood have been considered as the embodiment of a national shame in the turmoil of the tragedy of Korean national history. This narrative of Elizabeth, a Korean transracial and transnational female adoptee deeply explores her diasporic existence and the marks of trauma on her body caused by the victimization of women. It also deals with the questions of misogynist discourse of male supremacy from both Korean national structure and imperialistic white male tradition. Elizabeth suffers from a state of not belonging, racial dislocations, and the ensuing untranslability of her diasporic life. By focusing on how she overcomes this predicament, this paper proposes the positive legacy from adoptees’ incessant struggle for the future Korean society intermittent with the questions of transraciality and transnationality.
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