아동서사문학의 장애담론과 소통 가능성

Abstract

Recently, there have been written a lot children literature texts about “disability,” but the disability discourse of the texts includes problematic points. In many texts, the writer’s own knowledge about disabled people is embodied in the disabled characters, but that is only writers image(or knowledge) of disabled people not real lives of them. Under their knowledge, writers Interpellate people with disabilities as ‘a handicapped person’ and reduce them to that name. As a result, the disabled characters are understood and interpreted by non-disabled subjects as simple knowledge rather than the active subject. That deprives the disabled characters of natural desire of humans to reveal themselves to the world as a subject through their own ‘words and actions’. Criticizing this, Gong, Jinha shows the new disability discourse in her texts. The disabled characters are unhappy, when non-disabled characters understand them as their own knowledge in the texts, <Cheong, Cheong, open your eyes> and <Byuki>. In these texts, even though non-disabled characters take care the disabled characters with devotion, non-disabled characters make the disabled character’s words and action not reveal to the world and limit their names to ‘the disabled’. Thus the writer criticizes the subject’s one side communication and poverty of communication between the non-disabled and the disabled. The writer try to let the Other’s words reveal on the world to overcome poverty of communication. The writer uses the first person narrative in <How to use Dotori>, she helps the disabled character tells readers about himself. The writer does not explain her knowledge about the disabled, she just let the Others say about themselves and restore their words. Children readers can or can not be in sympathy with the Others (the disabled) through these text. The writer leaves the ethic of listening to the reader’s subjective judgment instead of speaking her knowledge.