『어글리즈』와 『헝거게임』 시리즈에 나타난 신체정치와 공간성

Abstract

Through the Uglies series and Hunger game series belonging to the Young Adult Novel genre, this paper analyzes the patterns in which places form individual identity. The novel's main characters focused on the process of breaking the norms of biopolitics through 'the space invasion'. If the “body” is social, then the place where the body stays also has a social meaning. The place creates discourse and socializes human beings accordingly. It is used to institutionalize and discipline. A space where no group or individual is allowed to enter gives privileges and hierarchy to those within that space. The minorities are only accepted in the forbidden space when they have performed well the script of “citizen-to-be” required by the social system. Body has been controlled and become materialized like a component of social system. This paper explores the influence that a place gives on power and control, as well as the aspect that a place constitutes an individual's identity. This paper also shows the part that 'body' won freedom as a 'move' that shows the process of escaping from its violent environment that restrained and suppressed the body, recovering its own original self and constituting its identity. A place creates a discourse and it often socializes, systemizes and regulates human suitable to it. These works accuse indirectly the issues that the children who were brought up in such a specific place become incorporated into a social system as principal agents with stereotyped ideology. By entering a restricted area, the main characters shows what it’s like to be a ‘spaces invaders’ as Nirmal Puwar’s book of the same name. The main characters in the novel invaded into the unauthorized places and broke the rules. Their passive, normal bodies are turned into active, unfamiliar bodies and shake the system. In particular, this paper is meaningful because it is the first academic paper to cover the Uglies series, which has never been highlighted academically in Korea.