근대 세계체제의 확장과 약소자의 정체성 ― 중국 조선족 작가 금희의 소설 세계

초록

Geum Hee, a novelist, is a writer who is attracting the attention of both the Joseonjok (ethnic Koreans in China) literature circle and the Korean literature circle. She was born and raised in Changchun, Jilin Province, and she once lived as a lower-class laborer in Korea. Geum Hee has realistically depicted the rapid changes in the lives of Joseonjok in East Asia following the changes in the world system since the 1990s. Geum Hee’s novel reveals an attitude that gives an affirmative depiction of the life of Joseonjok (My Home That Is Not in the World), and also shows an excellent ethical sense that embodies North Korean defectors as the Minority (Okhwa). After China’s reform and opening up, her novel plausibly portrays the ethical conflicts and the discovery of self-desire experienced by Joseonjok women as they move from rural to urban areas. (The Days of Tianjin) Joseonjok literature is ethnic minority literature in China, while it is included in the category of overseas Korean literature using the same language. Geum Hee described herself as ‘the last generation of writers who write works in the Korean language.’ Through her novels, Geum Hee embodies the process of discovering their own identity of women in conflict with the patriarchal order as migrants from the countryside to the city and as a sub-subject of the world system. The identity as the Minority, expressed in Geum Hee Novel, is politicized in tension with the world system. Geum Hee’s novels call for fundamental questions about the perspective of looking at diaspora literature. Diaspora literature researchers should be able to look at the world from the perspective of a diaspora subject, away from the point of view that puts their world at the center. Geum Hee’s novels present Joseonjok’s discovery of self-identity, indicating the need to study diaspora in relation to the workings of the global modern system.

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