• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.107-127
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• 2008

Critics are inclined to interpret J.M. Coetzee's novels in South African contexts, which Coetzee's own background seems to support. One has to bear in mind, however, that Coetzee tends to "see the South African situation as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo-colonialism." In other words, putting too much emphasis on South African contexts may diminish or undermine significance of Coetzee's multi-layered novels. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to highlight what Coetzee has to say about American colonialism/imperialism and to emphasize importance of "postcolonial rhetoric of simultaneity" which is repeatedly shown in his fictional works. It gives a meticulous attention to and analyzes "Vietnam Project," the first novella of Dusklands, Coetzee's very first novel, which depicts and characterizes "what Chomsky in the context of Vietnam [War] called 'the backroom boys.'" "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," "When a Woman Grows Older," and Diary of a Bad Year are occasionally brought into discussion as well. This kind of study seems timely and pertinent especially when we take into account the rampant American imperialism which has devastated and almost traumatized the world.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.903-941
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• 2012

This essay examines Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism focusing on the concepts of 'culture,' 'empire,' and 'nation'. The approach is critical, theoretical, and historical rather than explicatory. Consequently, the range of the essay is not limited to Said's own explanation and argument about Western imperialism and its culture presented in the book. In doing this, this essay finally purposes to be a discursive resistance to the current global empire, the United States, via a critical reading of Said's work. Said's notion of culture is set upon to disclose the function of culture as an apparatus of ideological consent of the dominated to the dominant. When applied to imperial practice, Western culture functions to subject the colonized to the colonizer. Said's geographical approach to imperialism complements the historical understanding of imperialism. Imperialism is not only the practice of Western-centered historicism but also the spatially mutual interaction between the West and the rest of the world. Along with European imperialism, Said poses the current global empire of the United States as his main target of criticism. Said's problem is that he takes the United States as a nation-state. When examined, the United States is not a nation-state, but today's empire. The empire in the appearance of the nation-state United States does not work for the interest of the American nation, that is, the American people. The empire is the transnational and postnational political and economic institution that works for the interest of global capital. In order to resist the current global empire, this essay suggests that the building or restoration of nation-states with its basic principle of people's sovereignty is in need.

• 영미문화
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.287-309
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to critique British imperialism in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India (1991) by analyzing the partition of India from the perspective of nation, religion, and women. Dubbed "Punjabi-Parsi-Indian-Pakistani," Sidhwa is in a position where she can view the partition from an objective and neutralized stance. Rather than focusing on the lives of nationally well-known political figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, or Jinnah, Sidhwa delves deep into the miserable lives of the lower classes before and after the partition. First, I analyze the process of the partition, as it is performed through the manipulation of British imperialism. By adopting the viewpoint of an 8-year-old Lenny, who is the daughter of a Parsi family, Sidhwa is able to critique both British imperialism as well as the male-dominated Indian society where the treatment of women is unthinkably harsh. Second, I focus on the tragedy of the confrontation of three religions, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh. Religious people fight each other while they were forced to move from South to North or from North to South. I argue that the religious conflicts have much to do with political issues. Third, I want to argue that women are the major victims of the partition. Ayah, Hamida, and Papoo are victims of male-dominated India during the partition. They symbolize the feminized India, which is exploited and victimized by British Imperialism. Even though Ayah is shattered by Ice-candy-man while working as a prostitute and dancer, she decides to return to her home in India, which shows her challenge against male-dominated India as well as against British colonialism. In conclusion, Sidhwa tries to heal the suffering of the Indian women who fell victim to male-dominated Indian society by criticizing the problems of British imperialism. In addition, by dealing with the lives of silenced people, Sidhwa asks readers not to forget the historical tragedy and not to repeat the tragedy again.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제25권
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• pp.55-85
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• 2011

Many States such as Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Florida were obtained either from Spanish Empire or from Mexico. In 1848 due to the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty America could obtain half of the original territory of Mexico. American identity cannot be understood without the history of American expansionism further consolidated by the Spanish-American War in 1898, which brought other ex-Spanish colonies such as Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines to the US. The US's interest in these territories dates back to the Monroe doctrine in 1823 when Monroe "declared the Americas off-limits to any new European colonization." America justifies their expansion based on the notion of Manifest Destiny which was created by O'Sullivan at the hight of American fever to annex Texas to US. The intent of this paper is to study how Anglo-Saxon and Latin Culture clashed against each other especially right before and after the Spanish-American War. In this study the American hero, Theodore Roosevelt and Latin American hero, $Jos{\acute{e}}$ Martí will be compared, though they did not meet each other during the Spanish-American war due to Marti's early death in 1895 at the battle for the Cuba Libre. Their comparison is significant in that the former represents the American expansionist spirit and the latter the spirit of Anti-imperialism and Anti-Anglocentrism. Along with the concept of Manifest Destiny of America, 'American exceptionalism' is also mentioned which motivates U.S. to expand further even after the Spanish-American war in the form of 'informal imperialism' characterized by 'gunboat politics'of the US. These discussions will draw attention to how recent theorists such as Bryce Traister criticizes the Border Theory represented by $Jos{\acute{e}}$ David Saldívar. Here the Border Theory is criticized to repeat the discourse of the globalized capitalism which prefers the weak state and the transnational aspects by focusing on the in-betweenness of the border. In the end the paper will focus on how the Border theory as represented by Saldivar is political enough and sets up a resistant example against American expansionism of today in its focus on the call for pan-American and pluri-versal subjectivity of the borderlands. This point will be supported by a discussion of how Saldivar's view is confirmed by Walter Mignolo who advocates the "bottom up" resistance of the indigenous people of Chiapas and other social forums such as World Social Forum and the Social Forum of the Americas derived from the Zapatistas' movement whose motto is "A World in which many world co-exist."

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.277-296
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• 2023

The South Korean ethnic diaspora US lobby shows efficacy as an interest group in generating influence in American foreign and domestic public policy making. The persuasive portrayal of South Korea as a critical Cold War US ally reinforced US amenability to pro-South Korea lobbying. Also, the South Korean US diaspora is a comparatively recent immigrant group, thus its lingering resistance to assimilation facilitates its political mobilization to lobby the US government. One source of this influence includes the foundational legacy of proselytizing Western and particularly American religious social movement representatives in Korean religiosity and society. US protestant Christianity acquired a strong public association with emerging Korean nationalism in response to Japanese imperialism and occupation. Hostility towards Japanese colonialism followed by the threat from Soviet-sponsored, North Korean Communism meant Christianity did not readily become a cultural symbol of excessive external, US interference in South Korean society by South Korean public opinion. The post-Cold War shift in US foreign policy towards targeting so-called rogue state vestiges of the Cold War including North Korea enhanced further South Korea's influence in Washington. Due to essential differences in the perceived historical role of American influence, extrapolation of the South Korean development model is problematic. US hegemony in South Korea indicates that perceived alliance with national self-determination constitutes the core of soft power appeal. Civilizational appeal per se in the form of religious beliefs are not critically significant in promoting American polity influence in target polities in South Korea or, comparatively, in the Middle East. The United States is a perceived opponent of pan-Arab nationalism which has trended towards populist Islamic religious symbolism with the failure of secular nationalism. The pronounced component of evangelical Christianity in American core community nationalism which the Trump campaign exploited is a reflection of this orientation in the US.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.163-202
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• 2020

This paper examines how Japanese society produced and reproduced a distinctively gendered history and memories of the experience of WWII and colonialism in the postwar era. We argue that these gendered narratives, which were embedded in postwar debates about the Peace Constitution and comfort women, have engendered contradictions and made the historical conflicts with neighboring countries challenging to resolve. On the one hand, this deepens conflict, but on the other, it also generates stability in East Asia. After Japan's defeat in WWII, the American Occupation government created the Peace Constitution, which permanently "renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes." The removal of the state's monopoly on violence - the symbol of masculinity - resulted in Japan's feminization. This feminization led to collective forgetting of prewar imperialism and militarism in postwar Japan. While collectively forgetting the wartime history of comfort women within these feminized narratives, the conservative movement to revise the Peace Constitution attempted to recover Japan's masculinity for a new, autonomous role in international politics, as uncertainty in East Asia increased. Ironically, however, this effort strengthened Japan's femininity because it involved forgetting Japan's masculine role in the past. This forgetting has undermined efforts to achieve masculine independence, thus reinforcing dependence on the United States. Recurrent debates about the Peace Constitution and comfort women have influenced how Japanese political elites and intellectual society have constructed distinctive social institutions, imagined foreign relations, and framed contemporary problems, as indicated in their gendered restructuring of history.

• 공연문화연구
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• 제37호
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• pp.249-293
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• 2018

뮤지컬은 유럽의 오페라로 대표되는 서구 음악극 전통에서 시작된 대중예술 장르로서 20세기 미국 브로드웨이를 중심으로 꽃을 피웠으며, 현재 전 세계적으로 공연예술 분야에서 대중의 큰 사랑을 받고 있는 상업예술 가운데 하나라 할 수 있다. 이 장르의 특성 상 드라마의 전개나 캐릭터의 표현 등은 말이나 몸짓이 아닌 음악을 주요 매개체로 사용하며, 그 음악의 스타일은 특정 계층이 아닌 대중의 기호에 민감하게 반응한다. 근대화는 곧 서양화이고 일본이 조선의 개화에 책임을 져야한다는 일제의 식민주의 음악교육은 조선 민중에게 일본 이데올로기 및 문화를 강제적으로 주입함으로써 일본에의 협력과 순종을 이끌어내기 위한 것이었다. 일제가 편찬한 "보통교육 창가집"을 교재로 한 식민주의 음악교육은 한민족의 음악적 정체성이 일본음악 및 서양음악으로 전환되는 계기가 되었다. 또한 해방 이후 냉전체재 하에서 미국의 대외정책에 따른 친미적 남한 정부 수립을 위한 자본주의 경제 메커니즘과 더불어 '미8군 쇼 무대'와 '영화'로 대표되는 미국 대중문화, 이 두 가지 요소들의 유입으로 인한 비가시적인 '문화제국주의'의 영향으로 우리의 전통음악은 '국악'이라는 단어에 갇혀 '과거의 음악'이라는 의미로 한정되어지게 되었다. 우리나라는 해방 이후 미국 대중문화의 유입으로 뮤지컬을 접하게 되었고, 우리 전통예술의 현대화를 통한 '건전한 문화'의 보급을 지향한 당시 박정희 정권의 문화정책 기조에 따라 '한국적 뮤지컬'을 지향하는 '예그린악단'이 창단되었다. 그러나 우리 민족예술을 기반으로 현대화 된 공연예술을 만들고자 했던 계획은 1966년 <살짜기옵서예>의 성공으로 가능성을 보였으나, 이후 정권 실세의 후원 중단 등의 이유로 더 이상 주체적으로 운영할 능력을 상실한 관변단체로 전락하는 운명에 처하면서 무산되고 만다. 일제의 식민주의 음악교육과 해방 이후 미국 대중문화의 유입이라는 문화제국주의 책략의 영향으로 말미암아 한국 뮤지컬의 태동기에 우리의 전통연희 양식이 서양 음악과의 교류, 확장을 통한 자주적인 민족예술로 자리매김하지 못한 1960년대의 상황을 초래하게 되었다. 이것이 21세기 현재 한국 뮤지컬 시장을 서구 라이센스 뮤지컬이 주도하게 된 배경이며, 아울러 서양음악을 기반으로 한 뮤지컬 창작 현실의 주요 원인으로 볼 수 있다.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.251-276
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• 2020

이 서평논문의 목적은 『유럽과 북미 지역 접경지대 연구의 세계화(Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America』를 비판적으로 읽음으로써 현재까지 유럽과 북미 지역에서 진행된 접경지대 연구의 동향을 살피고 그 서사의 확장 가능성과 한계를 논하는 데 있다. 이 책은 고대에서 현대까지 유럽과 북미 지역의 접경지대들을 대상으로 한 다양한 사례연구들을 소개한다. 공동연구의 목적과 정의를 명확히 하기 위한 서론 챕터와 접경연구의 미래에 대한 전망을 다룬 짧은 결론 챕터 외에 총 10개 챕터로 구성된다. 이 챕터들은 크게 두 가지 측면에서 현 접경연구에 중요한 시사점을 던져준다. 첫째, 이제껏 접경연구를 선도해온 유럽과 북미(대개 미국) 학계의 연구자들이 관심을 기울인 지역과 대상들에 대해 알 수 있게 해준다. 그렇게 접경연구의 현주소를 점검하고 축적된 성과들을 발판으로 다른 지역(특히 아시아)에 존재하는 다양한 접경지대에 대한 연구가 가능할 것인지, 소위 세계화라는 연구의 확장 가능성 또한 전망한다. 둘째, '접경지대'라고 하면 일반적으로 떠올리게 되는 물리적(physical)인 공간으로서의 접경지대를 넘어, 개념적(conceptual)인 공간으로서의 접경지대를 소개한다. '개념적 접경지대'의 사례는 한 개인의 정체성에서부터 통치 방식, 종교, 경제, 사회제도, 가족, 노동, 공중보건, 젠더 문제에 이르기까지 매우 다양하다. 그러나 한계점 역시 존재한다. 공동연구의 한계라고 할 수 있는 일관된 용어 사용의 부재, 유럽과 북미 지역이라는 배경적 한계 때문인지 여전히 제국주의 담론 내에서 접경지대를 이해하려 한다는 점, 따라서 여기서 그리고 있는 접경지대의 대부분이 갈등과 투쟁의 공간에서 벗어나지 못했다는 점 등이다. 그럼에도, 이 책은 여러 접경연구의 가능성을 제시했다는 점과 지정학적으로 대륙세력과 해양세력의 접경지대에 위치한 한반도의 현 상황을 이해하는데 도움을 준다는 점에서 현재적인 의의가 있다.