중국문화연구에 대한 상호텍스트적 접근 — <사천의 선인>과 <스틸라이프>를 중심으로

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to expand the scope of Chinese cultural studies through the perspective of intertextuality. It is intended to supplement the limitations of regional and cultural researches which have been conducted as mutual academic research, thereby conducting cultural researches on the theme of ‘relationship’. The view of this paper is based on the dialogic relationship in historical and cultural contexts of Bakhtin, and Kristeva’s intertextuality which is on the same line as dialogics. A careful analysis of two works, one by Bertolt Brecht, a wellknown German playwright, which is entitled <The Good Person of Szechwan(1943)> and the other from a Chinese film entitled <Still Life(2006)>, will clearly reveal their dialogic relationship. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht used the theater as a forum for social critique. He was influenced by a wide variety of sources from Chinese, Japanese and many more. He intends to make a referential use of the advantages of Chinese drama. The play <The Good Person of Szechwan> is one of Brecht’s most intercultural plays, blending his fascinations for Chinese theatricality and German politics. Jia Zhangke, a Chinese film director who created <Still Life>, was much influenced by Brecht. The flim <Still Life> is an example of this kind of Interculturalism. The background of creation is different, but the creative techniques of the two works, the power relationship, and ideology in the works are closely interlinked. Many new things can be discovered in this dialogic relationship, which would otherwise be ignored simply by concentrating on one text. Polyphony, which can be found in de-subjective, decentralized, and de-nationalized relationships, shows new possibilities for interpretation and creation. In the future, it will be necessary to pay attention to the cross-cultural landscape in which tradition, modernity, and different countries interact together to form new cultures in various genres.