• 영어영문학
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.163-183
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• 2012

This paper is one of those attempts to explore some possibility of agreement between feminist discourse and postcolonial discourses through the approach of postcolonial feminism in the reading of the controversial novel, So Far from the Bamboo Grove and Year of Impossible Goodbyes. So Far from the Bamboo Grove, when read from the perspective of postcolonial feminism, reveals 'domestic nationalism' of imperial narratives in which the violence of imperial history in Korea is hidden behind the picture of every day lives of an ordinary Japanese family and Japanese women. Furthermore, postcolonial feminist's perspective interprets Yoko family's nostalgia for their 'home,' Nanam in Korea, as 'imperialist nostalgia' working as a mask to hide the violent history of colonization of Empire. In this way, postcolonial feminist reading of the story detects the ways the narrative of Empire appropriates women, family image and even nostalgia for childhood. At the same time, this perspective explains the readers' empathy for Yoko family's suffering and the concerning women issues caused by wartime rape and sexual violence by defining Yoko as a woman of Japanese Empire, whose life of interstice between imperial men and colonial men cannot be free from violence of rape during anti colonial wars. Year of Impossible Goodbyes as a counter discourse does not overcome the traditional binary opposition of nationalism which quietens gender and class issues. As an attempt to fill in the interstice between the two perspectives of feminism and postcolonialism. postcolonial feminist reading turns out to be a valid tool for the reading of the two novels chosen here.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제51권
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• pp.161-191
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• 2018

20세기 들어 서구중심적 보편주의에 직접적으로 의문을 제기한 지적 흐름은 이른바 '탈식민주의(Postcolonialisme)이다. 지금까지 제시된 탈식민주의 비평의 주요 성과 가운데 하나는 피식민사회의 정치적 해방이 해당 사회의 경제, 사회, 문화 등의 해방을 담보하지 못하고, 따라서 서구사회의 해방담론- 특히 맑스주의, 민족주의, 여성주의, 해체주의 등이 주창해온 -이 비서구사회에 직접적으로 적용될 수 없다는 사실이다. 이로 인해 서구사회와 비서구사회는 안타깝게도 서로 다른 미래와 해방을 꿈꾸고 있으며, 따라서 이들 사이에 소위 '지정학적 대화'가 요구된다는 당위성이 노출되었다. 그러나 탈식민적 해방을 위한 이론가들의 노력은 여러 서구중심적인 전통들과 결별하지 못한 채, 혹은 그것들과 연대하면서, 자신들의 세력권을 구축해온 것도 사실- 그 성과를 폄훼하는 것은 아니지만 -이다. 주지하다시피 탈식민주의 비평의 상당수는, 특히 탈식민주의를 주창하거나 제안하는 '화자(話者)' 혹은 '정체성'의 측면에서, 그러한 탈식민주의 이데올로기를 담아내거나 표출하는 '언어(言語)'의 측면에서 그리고 식민적 폐해를 고발함과 동시에 탈식민적 미래를 모색하기 위해 동원하였던 '대항담론(對抗談論)'의 측면에서 어떻게든 서구와의 연을 이어갔다. 본 연구는 피식민사회의 해방을 제안한 여러 탈식민주의 비평들 가운데 이른바 '네그리튀드($N{\acute{e}}gritude$)'운동의 아버지라 불리는 에메 세제르($Aim{\acute{e}}$ $C{\acute{e}}saire$)의 탈식민주의 정치사상을 중심으로 다시 읽기를 추진해볼 것이다. 그것은 세제르의 탈식민주의 정치사상을 '화자', '언어' 그리고 '대항담론'이라는 세 가지 앵글을 통해서 이론적으로 되짚어보는 과정을 의미한다. 이 과정을 통해 세제르와 그의 정치사상을 새롭게 성찰해 볼 수 있는 계기가 되기를 희망해본다.

• 여성학논집
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.79-120
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• 2011

본 연구는 그동안 '공식적' 역사 속에서 부재, 혹은 침묵되어 왔던 '양공주'의 경험을 자기재현의 서사로 재구성하면서, 재현과 사회적 편견, '듣는 자'와 '말하는 자' 사이의 긴장을 드러내고 '타자 만나기'라는 인식론적 질문을 던짐으로써, 여성주의 구술생애사의 방법론적 함의를 찾고자 한다. 기지촌 여성노인의 내러티브는 필연/우연, 강제/자발, 매춘/사랑, 양갈보/색시의 경계에 서 있는 여성이 어떻게 '정상적 한국 여성', '한민족', '정상 가족'에 관한 신화들과 충돌하고 협상하며 비/순응적으로 살아왔는지를 보여준다. 무엇보다 새로운 자기정체화 가능성을 보여주는 구술과정의 만남은 '양공주'가 누구인가에 관한 질문을, 침묵과 드러냄을 강요하는 '듣는' '우리(나)는 누구인가'의 문제로 되돌린다는 점에서 의미가 있다. 결론적으로, '타자'에 대해 연구하는 '우리'는 '서발턴이 말할 수 있는가'라는 질문에 선행해서 '우리는 과연 들을 수 있는가, 무엇을 진정으로 듣고 싶은가'에 대한 문제의식으로부터 출발해야 할 것이다.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제1호
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• pp.71-92
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• 2003

This study examined the condition of an educational discourse, relating the concept of creativity, culture, culture-centered, and critical thinking, to explore Culture-based Art Education(CBAE). In particular, art education practice was examined using interpretations of creativity and critical theory positions from the field of education. Discourse analysis was used as the research method to contextually situate and analyze the ways in which art education theory and practice of creativity and of critical studies encoded meanings. The study helped build an understanding that creativity was formed as a modernist discourse in the humanistic stance. In education, creativity became the fundamental concern for progressive educators who pursued innate ability of individuals. The way to enhance creative potential of students was to induce their motive, as was the same case in art education, while in artist training, free expression was its main method. In this way, as creativity was intimately connected with the concept of expression, in art education art making is the only course for enhancing creativity. However, because creative process cannot intelligently be regarded as logically distinct from the creative product, and creativity can only be said by product, it seems valid to think that creativity is the quality not to be achieved by teaching. Furthermore, its emphasis on art making resulted in unbalance of art making and art appreciation in art education. It was the late sixties when several alternatives for creative education were made their appearance. Critical studies in art adopted critical theory as its theoretical background has developed as an alternative of creative art education, when research and theory for creativity could not be adequate to deal with the problem of practice. Critical theory is a broad and diverse field of theory and practice drawing on aspects of the modernist perspective of the later Frankfurt School, feminism, Freirean pedagogy, postcolonial discourse as well as postmodernism to construct a practical approach to education. It is very this eclectic nature to provide the mosaic that need to experience cultures from different perspectives in a pluralistic society. Because one's personality is formed by multiple aspects of culture which is very complex and is made up of what we do and value, creativity cannot make part of educational discourse with the philosophy of culture centered. On the other hand, critical studies, as a school art program of critical theory, can perform the role of CBAE, because it would have to deal with the investigation of social and cultural issues form multiple personal, local, national, and global perspectives.