다이아스포라로 인한 다문화 사회의 바리데기적 비젼 － 황석영의 『바리데기』를 중심으로 －

Abstract

This paper is intended to discuss the problem of emigration and the accompanying problem of multi-cultural society represented in Baridegi of Hwang Seokyoung. The novelist had his critical mind about the division of North and South and the conflict between classes which has been the origin of conflict in Korean society, and recently he developed his viewpoint by focusing on the issues of emigration and multi-cultural society. He borrows the vision to solve the difficulties of the diaspora and the multicutural society from Baridegi, Seosamuga. Bari of Seosamuga leaves a journey of seeking medicine for treating the disease of father king, whereas Bari of Hwang's modern version similarly leaves her family dissolved by the political repression of North Korea and the buying and selling of human-beings in the market of New Liberalism, to China and England. Bari comes to be degenerated into physical merchandise and to be isolated from the social community as a deserted weak being. Bari of Seosamuga can achieve the water of life, by overcoming her difficulties with her filial piety, to treat the disease of father king. In the same method, Bari of Hwang performs her good deeds to the neighbors with supernatural ability inherited from her grandmother, so that she can create the relation of communication and cooperation in her isolated life. Bari shows the positive model of the diaspora with which she can get her helpers in completely strange society by practicing the life of service and sacrifice. Also, she forms multi-cultural family through the marriage with a Pakistani. However, it leaves incomplete problem for the major society surrounded by New Liberalism, not to ensure the temporary stability that Bari enjoyed after marriage. She suddenly comes to be enveloped in the flames of religious conflict and war caused by 9, 11 terror, the biggest difficulty in this century. Conclusively Bari, the heroine of this novel, does her best to practice the vision of salvation through forgiveness and reconciliation by taking the transcendental attitude like Baridegi of Seosamuga. However, Bari's viewpoint at the terror in London seems to be very pessimistic because she cannot do anything in reconciliation between the major society and angry immigrants or multi-cultural families.