모빌리티, 디아스포라, 난민 문학 -강영숙의 『리나』와 최진영의 『해가 지는 곳으로』를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines the problems of North Korean refugees and the problems of disaster refugees through Kang Young-sook’s Rina (2011) and Choi Jin-young’s Toward where the Sun Sets (2017). The problems related to refugees provide an opportunity for reflection and introspection on our times by exposing inhuman and unethical nation-state-based adversaries such as conflicts, oppression, violence, and disgust produced by modern society. In Rina, Rina escapes North Korea but repeats being a cheap worker and prostitute through repeated human trafficking. In the globally gendered capitalist labor division system, Rina, a refugee in North Korea, has fallen into ‘a subaltern’, but continues to break through the miserable situation given to her. Leaving behind the real family based on blood, Rina lives in the form of a new quasi-family she chose. Toward where the Sun Sets is a story of exodus escaping from South Korea where the country system collapsed due to a virus toward where the Sun sets. This work is based on the narrative of the three families who became refugees, asking how it is possible to dream after the disaster and what it was like before the disaster. In this work, Dori and Gina’s homosexuality are presented as alternatives to heterosexual love based on masculine one-sided, violent and hedonic desires. Modern mobilities have a double-sided character. The new mobility of science and technology and how to think about it in a humanities way will be an essential task to reflect on the tragic mobility of the past and not to repeat it.