• 영어영문학
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.1123-1137
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• 2009

Revisiting the horror of slave mutiny in nineteenth century America via Julia Kristeva's concept of abject, this essay examines abject fear in Amasa Delano and Babo's subversive act to deceive Delano in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno." Babo, the slave, exercises subversive power, thereby reversing racial hierarchy aboard the slave ship-the San Dominick. Babo's ability to mimic and control racial stereotypes exposes how nineteenth-century racial hierarchy was only a social fiction, which becomes the very source of Delano's fear. Delano's dread belies upon the possible disruption of social order triggered by Babo'sblack rebellion. In order to repress his fear, Delano consciously and unconsciously attempts to re-inscribe white dominion and reaffirm black inferiority and stereotypes by means of rationalizing the disturbing signs he witnesses on the San Dominick. When Delano discovers the realsituation of the ship, he must relinquish the abject resonance that disturbs the previous racial order. Employing a legal document, Delano re-inscribes the official position of the blacks as slaves, defining them as violent savages, and thereby silences Babo. However, Melville's text is not a testament to white power. "Benito Cereno" actually endorses abject instability to challenge racial hierarchies through the poignant image of Babo's dead gaze in the last scene of the novella. Thus, "Benito Cereno" exemplifies the recurring power of abject as a threat to social hierarchy and as a constant reminder of the falsity and insecurity of a social order.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.232-243
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• 2023

The boundaries between fashion and contemporary art are increasingly blurred showing their interchangeability. This study examines Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou's concept of dispossession to analyze expressions of gender, racial, and class identity in Martine Gutierrez's representative work, Indigenous Woman. First, gender expressions in Indigenous Woman emphasize the possibility of performative and practical gender as an image that rejects norms that grant authority according to the possession of innate body parts. Second, racial identity is expressed through resistance to the ideology of whiteness and imperialism reinforced by fashion media. The author aims to overcome normative stereotypes through the media she creates, which reveals her identity as a person of color. Third, class identity is represented through stereotypes that limit the lives of indigenous people to primitive and natural things. The author reveals a critical awareness of the hierarchical structure and cultural appropriation these stereotypes have created. This study analyzed contemporary artworks using fashion media through the concept of dispossession. The significance of this study lies in raising a critical awareness of the practices that diffuse minority identities in fashion media.

• 만화애니메이션 연구
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• 통권32호
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• pp.335-361
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• 2013

국내 거주 외국인 100만 명 시대에 접어들면서, 한국의 미디어에 등장하는 외국인의 비율도 점차 늘고 있다. 하지만 대중적인 미디어에서 인종 소수자인 외국인을 정형화된 모습으로 재현할 경우, 이를 보는 한국인의 인식에 상당한 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이에 따라 이 연구는 지난 2005년부터 2012년까지 8년간 한국의 지상파 3사 드라마에서 외국인이 얼마나 등장하고 어떤 방식으로 묘사되고 있는지를 유형화해 한국 드라마의 민족적 정경을 살펴보았다. 연구결과, 지상파에서 외국인이 등장하는 드라마는 전체 드라마의 6.4%로 매우 적은 비중을 차지하고 있었다. 또한 외국인의 극 중 역할도 일부를 제외하고는 대다수가 조연이나 단역에 머물고 있었다. 한편, 극 중 역할을 유형화한 결과 크게 동경집단과 동정집단, 근접집단, 기타집단으로 분류할 수 있었다. 동경집단에는 미국 유럽 출신의 백인과 백인혼혈인이 속했는데, 대다수가 의사나 변호사 등 전문직에 종사하는 남성들로 호감을 주는 외모나 성격을 지닌 것으로 묘사되었다. 반면 동정집단은 베트남, 필리핀, 카자흐스탄, 우즈베키스탄 등의 유색인종과 흑인혼혈인으로 구성되었으며, 여성의 비율이 높고 사회 하류층으로 재현되는 경향이 있었다. 근접집단의 경우 우리나라와 역사적 관계가 깊은 일본과 중국 출신의 인물들이 속해 있는데, 일본인의 경우 경제적인 부(富)와 한국인과의 경쟁 및 우호관계가 강조되고 있었다. 이상의 연구결과를 종합해본 결과, 한국 드라마에서 특정 인종과 민족에 대한 고정관념이 상당수 드러나고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 물론 일부 드라마에서 고정화된 이미지를 탈피해 다양한 모습으로 살아가는 외국인의 삶을 재현하고자 했으나, 이런 시도는 극소수에 불과한 것으로 나타났다. 이 연구는 한국사회가 다인종 다문화 사회로 급격히 변화하고 있는 시점에서 한국 드라마에 등장하는 외국인의 면모를 장기적인 관점에서 분석해 한국인에게 내재된 고정관념을 밝히고 이를 통해 바람직한 다문화주의를 확립하는데 기여하고자 하였다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.693-718
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• 2009

Kate Burns, a disillusioned Irish woman in Quetzalcoatl, has alternating feelings of fear, repulsion, oppression, compassion, and fascination vis-à-vis Mexican people. Together, these feelings are constitutive of a psychic process in which an imaginary appropriation of the other takes place. In this process white subjectivity represents or reconstructs the dark race precisely as its other. At the same time, Kate's feelings register her anxious recognition of the resistant, unappropriated being of the dark people: their true 'otherness,' or what Žižek calls "the excess of existence over representation." The otherness, frequently racial and sexual, evokes mixed feelings in the white subject. Kate's at once amorous and aggressive response to Ramón's body provides a case in point. Kate's emotional undulation is considerably mitigated in The Plumed Serpent, the revised version of the novel in which the theme of 'blood-mixing' is pushed to the ultimate point. Yet the interracial marriage resolves neither the racial nor the ontologico-sexual issues raised in the first version. Kate is still attracted to Ramón in his sagacious sensuality but goes on to get married to Cipriano, a pure Indian, only to find his mechanical masculinity ever unpalatable. This shows, not just Lawrence's wilful commitment to the 'blood-mixing' theme, but perhaps his lingering taboo against miscegenation as well. Changes in the plot entail those in the narrative voice. In Quetzalcoatl, Owen, a spectatorial and gossipy character, frequently competes for narration with the fully participant third-person narrator. In The Plumed Serpent, the third-person narrator becomes predominant, now attempting with greater confidence to present the reality of the racial other immediately to European readership. While such immediacy is illusional, narrative insistence on it implies a struggle to displace racial stereotypes and offer an experiential understanding of the other.

• 영미문화
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.99-125
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• 2010

This paper explores the political significance of a literary work, the hidden side beneath the ideology of founding America in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok which reconstructs the history of the colonial period. The ideological strategy of founding America on racial discrimination is given a repeated representation in 19th-century American novels. Most works shed a negative light on Native Americans, whereas Hobomok stands out by presenting a positive picture of a miscegenation between a Native American man and a white woman, the acculturation of a half Indian into the white society. Furthermore, Child undoes distorted stereotypes about native Americans, exposing the Puritans' intolerant and exclusive attitudes and criticizing men who forced women to be obedient for the cause of nation and religion. However, Child also shows that she could not be free from the ideology of founding America which insisted on the superiority of the white's racial identity and excluded the Native Americans as beings who were destined to vanish gradually but eventually. Although Hobomok revises stereotypical representation of Native Americans as the other, it also serves for a political purpose, showing a politically inseparable relationship between literary works and the ideology of founding America.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.19-27
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• 2023

본 논문은 다인종, 다민족, 다문화적 미국사회에서, 한인, 백인, 흑인의 관계로 형성된 인종 삼각구도의 양상과 의미를 1992년 로스앤젤레스 인종 폭동을 중심으로 분석한다. 한국계 미국 이민 2세대 작가 스텝 차(Steph Cha)의 『너의 집이 대가를 치를 것이다』 (Your House Will Pay, 2019)를 그 분석의 대상으로 하여, 인종 삼각구도와 연관된 인종서열 관념, 인종적 상투형, 인종간 분리, 역사적 주변화, 문화적 편견의 쟁점을 살펴본다. 대도시 공간에서의 인종폭력에 얽힌 한인가족과 흑인가족의 좌절과 분노, 갈등과 증오, 트라우마와 죄의식을 통해 백인주도 사회의 다인종 간 상호관계를 탐색한다. 특히 LA 인종 폭동의 도화선이 된 한인 이민 상점주와 흑인 토착시민 소비자 배후에 자리잡은 이민자와 토착시민의 갈등 구조, 이민 소자본 자영업 공간의 특성, 이민경제적 양상을 중심으로, 대도시 폭력의 쟁점을 탐색한다. 흑백관계, 한백관계, 한흑관계로 이어지는 인종 삼각구도를 읽어내는 과정을 통해, 미국의 국가적 자원이자 역사적 갈등의 원천이 되는 인종 쟁점의 사회경제적 매트릭스에 대한 문화적 문식성을 강화하고, 초인종적, 초민족적, 초문화적 공감과 생명 공동체로서의 미래지향적 시민의식의 확장을 모색한다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제35권
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• pp.97-122
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• 2014

Since the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the 1850s, many Euro-American writers tended to project their fears, contempt, desires and fantasy onto the Other race and perceived Chinese Americans in stereotypes-dangerous villains, unassimilated aliens, quiet and passive servants, sexually submissive women, or seductive prostitutes. However in the 1970s and the 1980s Euro-American novels expressed varying attitudes towards Chinese Americans. Many earlier EuroAmerican writers began portraying positive characterizations of Chinese Americans. The purpose of this study is to examine the ways one of the Euro-American writers, Howard Fast characterized Chinese Americans in The Immigrants. Part of the novel concerns a Chinese American family. Fast gave a favorable portrayal of Chinese Americans. Unlike many Euro-American novelists who dealt only with Chinese American villains and prostitutes and view Chinese Americans as the lowest class of American society, Fast, on the other hand, portrayed Chinese Americans as law-abiding and useful citizens. Thus, I will discuss how Howard Fast subverted the familiar negative characterization of Chinese Americans and placed Chinese American experiences in the context of American immigration history. Many white Americans tended to notice only the lurid and sensational aspects in the Chinese American community. They seldom regarded Chinese Americans as people with homes and families and seldom saw Chinese Americans as individuals, as human beings with feelings, pain, and joy. To counter this racist view, Fast described the family life of Chinese Americans and depicted Chinese Americans as individuals with a full range of human emotions and with strong family and cultural ties. Though Fast debunked some myths about Chinese Americans, he also reinforces other stereotypes or some stereotypical illusions about them. In conclusion, I'll demonstrate Fast's work remains an incomplete representation of Chinese Americans.

• 영어영문학
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.1023-1039
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• 2012

The rising urban space in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century was an exemplary site of struggles between the dominant white population and those who migrated from the imperial peripheries. By setting up the space of Chinatown as a segregated sphere within the urban space, the dominant white American society attempted to recreate the sense of distance between themselves and the racial "others." Accordingly, the dominant narrative representations of San Francisco Chinatown at the turn of the century endeavored to produce and maintain the spatial dichotomies between the orderly spaces of natives and the disruptive immigrant communities within the larger boundary of modern American city space. As a Eurasian woman writer, Sui Sin Far attempted to provide distinctive portrayals of the space of Chinatown and its inhabitants that were far different from those of her contemporaries. Through her portrayals of San Francisco Chinatown in her collection of short-stories, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings (1912), Far challenges against the false stereotypes and misreading of this unique immigrant space within and efforts to present the Chinatown as a heterotopic diaspora space where the "insiders" and the "outsiders" of the American urban space intermingle and influence each other.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.39-69
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• 2008

한국 사회의 다문화, 다인종 사회로의 이행 과정에서 중요한 사회 변동의 축으로 자리잡은 여성결혼이민자들에 대한 지역사회 수용성의 제 단면을 질적 연구를 통해 알아보았다. 여성결혼이민자들이 거주하고 있는 도시(안산)와 농촌(영암) 지역의 내국인 주민 23명을 대상으로 심층면접을 실시하여, 여성결혼이민자에 대한 인식과 접촉 경험, 그리고 여성결혼이민자에 대한 개방성 및 다문화 사회로의 변화에 관한 인식을 조명하였다. 심층면접 결과, 조사된 지역주민들은 여성결혼이민자에 대해서 전반적으로 긍정적 인식과 개방적 태도를 지니고 있지만 이러한 긍정적 인식의 실체는 한국사회에 깊게 뿌리박힌 가부장제와 성역할 고정관념에 기반하고 있음을 시사하는 결과를 얻었다. 또한 여성결혼이민자들의 한국 문화 적응에 대한 지역주민들의 인식 역시 한국문화에 대한 일방적 동화를 전제로 공생관계를 인정하는 수준에 머물러 있는 것으로 나타났다. 전반적으로 본 연구의 결과는 현 단계로서는 여성결혼이민자들의 유입 및 그들과의 상호작용 경험이 문화적 다양성을 인정하고 양방향의 문화통합을 추구하는 형태의 문화적 다원화 과정으로 연결되지 못하고 있음을 시사한다. 본 연구 결과의 시사점 및 의의, 그리고 장래연구의 방향을 논의하였다.

• 영미문화
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.53-92
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• 2018

This essay aims to examine chick lit written within the Asian American context. For the most part, the chick lit genre has been typically regarded as a site to study contemporary white women's experiences and to debate the genres' credentials as feminist literature. Though some may disagree, there is general consensus that chick lit has fallen out of vogue after reaching its peak in the first decade of the new millenium.; nevertheless, it is being revisited by readers and critics alike as it has recently re-emerged as a location upon which to examine how race and gender inform notions of national belonging and female subject formation in the twenty-first century. To this end, this essay reads Kim Wong Keltner's The Dim Sum of All Things (2004). Keltner's protagonist Lindsey Owyang is yet another twentysomething "chick" looking for love, self, independence, and success in the huge megalopolis of San Francisco. What sets Lindsey apart from the chick prototype is that she is a third-generation ABC (American-born Chinese) and issues relevant to Asian America frequently make their way into Lindsey's narrative. Though it is generally considered as standing a "few notches above the standard chick-lit fare" (Stover n. pag), I would argue that meaningful reflections on many of the major pillars of Asian American literature, history, and cultural politics are glossed over in favor of cursory musings about the daily vicissitudes of Lindsey's life. This essay thus takes to task Ferriss's claim that a "serious" consideration of chick lit "brings into focus many of the issues facing contemporary women and contemporary culture - issues of identity, of race and class, of femininity and feminism, of consumerism and self-image" (2). I contend that a close examination of Keltner's The Dim Sum of All Things discloses that the chick lit format undermines a "serious consideration" of Asian American issues by presenting in particular a highly problematic representation of race and of Asian American femininity.