로힌턴 미스트리의 『가족문제』에 나타난 포스트식민 윤리와 차라투스트라의 선악

손석주(Sohn, Sukjoo) 새한영어영문학회 2021 새한영어영문학 Vol.63 No.2

The paper delves into the possibility of ethical behavior by examining Hindu far-right politics and its conflict with minorities like Parsis in postcolonial India. Disillusioned with corruption and injustice, Yezad’s turn to Zoroastrianism and his attendant binary thinking on good and evil are analyzed in this context. To that end, the paper addresses the long-standing issue of good and evil in the postcolonial Parsi context, in a critical manner from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of will-to-power reflected in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In this process, it both questions and raises the possibility of a new ethical subject by dealing with not only individuals’ choice and ethical experience but their limits.

아룬다티 로이의 『지복의 성자』에 나타난 힌두내셔널리즘과 묘지의 헤테로토피아

손석주(Sukjoo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2021 영미어문학 Vol.- No.142

이번 연구는 아룬다티 로이의 『지복의 성자』에서 힌두 극우 정치와 근본주의의 횡포로 인해 차별당하고 소외된 히즈라(Hijra) , 불가촉천민, 그리고 반군 세력 등이 묘지와 같은 절망과 죽음의 공간을 재영토화하여 가능성의 공간으로 바꾸는 과정에 대하여 면밀히 살펴보고자 한다. 소설에서 드러나는 공간적 변화와 변형을 통한 행위능력의 가능성을 살펴보기 위해서, 먼저 미셀 푸코(Michel Foucault)의 공간 개념인 헤테로토피아(heterotopia)를 포스트식민 인도의 맥락에 맞게 전유해 볼 것이다. 이를 바탕으로 인도의 소수자들이 사회 안에 존재하지만 바깥에 위치한 역설적인 공간인 묘지를 어떻게 유토피아적 기능을 수행하는 현실화된 장소, 즉 헤테로토피아로 만듦과 동시에 가능성의 공간으로 탈바꿈시키는지를 구체적으로 살펴보고자 한다. 또한, 푸코의 생명권력 이론이 지니는 한계를 명확하게 인식하고 보완하기 위해서 조르주 아감벤(Giorgio Agamben)의 호모 사케르(Homo Sacer) 개념을 전유하여 법질서 밖에 있는 소외된 이들이 지속적인 생명의 위협과 억압의 상태에서 벗어나기 위하여 어떻게 연대하고 저항하는지를 살펴보고자 한다. 이는 이들이 모여든 묘지가 단순히 위안이나 도피의 공간이 아니라, 힌두 지배 공간의 바깥에서 소외되고 억압받는 소수자들을 위한 재영토화와 저항의 가능성을 지닌 행위능력의 공간임을 보여주기 위한 것이다. Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, her second novel in 20 years after the Booker prize winner The God of Small Things, shows how such marginalized space as cemetery can subvert the hegemonic space of Hindu nationalism prevalent against minorities in India. This paper appropriates Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia to examine the ways in which cemetery countervails the Hindu hegemonic space to create an alternative space where minorities can live in solidarity. It also explores Giorgio Agamben’s concept of Homo Sacer to discuss how the downtrodden can survive oppressive power like rising Hindu nationalism with the aid of reterritorialization through heterotopia. In this process, the paper demonstrates that such paradoxical concepts as Homo Sacer and heterotopia can be used to raise the possibility of creating a counter space where Muslims, Dalits, Hijras, and guerrillas living on the edge of India can be united in their solidarity against hegemonic Hindu nationalism.

살만 루시디와 로힌턴 미스트리 소설의 인도 여성들: 서발턴 주체의 저항과 한계

손석주(Suk joo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2018 영미어문학 Vol.- No.130

This paper examines the ways in which marginalized women in the novels of Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry use traditional female tasks such as sewing and veiling to counter male-dominated discourse and create an alternative way of narrating history. To that end, the research problematizes Western feminism and patriarchal nationalism in the Third World so as to shed light on the agency of subaltern women and its limits in the Indian Subcontinent. Despite Spivak’s pessimistic conclusion that subalterns have no voice of their own, this paper appropriates her idea of strategic essentialism to examine the voice of otherness conveyed through the means of quilt, shawl, and veil, particularly in Rushdie’s Shame and Mistry’s A Fine Balance .

제1차 세계 대전을 통해서 본 타고르의 작품 세계

손석주(Sukjoo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2018 영미어문학 Vol.- No.129

This paper examines how Orientalist views of Rabindranath Tagore have changed in the West due largely to World War I. Focusing on his Nationalism , this research shows that the normative perception of Tagore in the West took a sharp turn because of his political opposition to colonialism and imperialism. The West’s adoption of Tagore as part of its canon proved to be a failure as he showed his true colors by taking a critical stance against nationalism, a key feature of Western imperialism, especially during the first world war. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that Tagore had hoped to achieve a confluence of the East and West by embracing Western ideas in a selective manner, expecting a conflict of their narrow-minded interests to be eclipsed by the higher standards of humanity.

내셔널리즘과 여성문제를 통해서 본 타고르의 『집과 세상』

손석주(Sukjoo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2017 영미어문학 Vol.- No.126

This paper examines how Tagore deals with nationalism and female issues like women’s freedom in his novel The Home and the World . His novel shows the negative effects of the spread of Western nationalism in colonial India, while at the same time criticizing patriarchal nationalism against women among independence movement leaders. This research is aimed at taking issue with the problems of nationalism and suggesting that the female creative power of shakti, in the Indian context, opposed Western imperialism and male-dominated oppression. The novel has been misunderstood or under appreciated, especially by Western critics like Gyorgy Lukacs. An accurate understanding of Tagore’s position on nationalism and women in the novel would help appreciate his pursuit of Western ideas and an alternative to a male-dominated world order.

아미타브 고시의 『그림자 선』에 나타난 인도 내셔널리즘과 포스트식민 윤리

손석주(Sukjoo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2023 영미어문학 Vol.- No.148

아미타브 고시의 『그림자 선』은 인도가 1차 분리독립에서 2차 분리독립으로 이행하는 과정에 벵골 지방에서 발생한 1964년 폭동과 그 여파를 전면에 내세우고 있다. 이번 연구에서는 이러한 역사적 배경을 바탕으로 내셔널리즘과 코즈모폴리터니즘의 이항대립적 관계에 초점을 맞추는 대신에 이러한 개념에 근본적인 의문을 제기하고 재정의함은 물론이고 새로운 포스트식민 윤리의 필요성을 제기한다. 포스트식민 맥락에서 등장인물들의 윤리적 행동을 비교함으로써 이번 연구는 대안적 상상과 윤리적 삶에 근거한 코즈모폴리터니즘이 제1세계와 제3세계의 화해와 연대의 가능성을 어떻게 보여주고 있는지를 구체적으로 살펴보고 있다. This paper examines the ways in which Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines portrays the lives of its main characters in terms of ethics and freedom in the aftermath of the partition of India in 1947 and the partition of Pakistan in 1971. Instead of focusing on the binary opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, this research aims to redefine the notion of them, thus raising the need for a new concept of ethics against the background of the historical events in India. By comparing the main characters’ ethical practices in the postcolonial context, the paper shows how cosmopolitanism based on alternative imagination and ethical life can contribute to bringing about the possibility of reconciliation and solidarity between the first world and the third world.

포스트식민주의 언어 내 번역을 통해서 다시 읽는 살만 루시디 소설

손석주(Suk joo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2016 영미어문학 Vol.- No.123

This paper examines how intralingual translation rewrites hegemonic history as a mode of resistance and renewal in postcolonial writing to empower ‘translated men. Taking a cue from Roman Jakobson’s theory of intralingual translation, this research shows how it has merged with cultural studies to enable postcolonial rewriting and transformation in Salman Rushdie’s novels. Among others, I explore how techniques of back-translation, palimpsest and veil work metaphorically to resist the dominant knowledge and hegemonic power, helping individual characters to find avenues of transformation and translation in a postcolonial context. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that the features of intralingual translation, such as rewriting, repetition, and elaboration, can be subversive enough to open up a possibility of what Rushdie calls “non-stop self-regeneration” in the postcolonial context.

『델리의 황혼』에 나타난 영국 식민주의와 올드델리의 파괴와 기억

손석주 ( Sukjoo Sohn ) 21세기영어영문학회 2020 영어영문학21 Vol.33 No.3

Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi, published in 1940 as arguably the first Indian Muslim English novel, shows the destructive effects of British imperialism on Old Delhi, the ancient capital of India since the 13th century. This paper examines how British colonial rule, which was firmly established after quelling the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, led to destroying the culture and language of Old Delhi and, ultimately, the construction of New Delhi. This paper also pays keen attention to how the novel uses Urdu and Persian poems to appropriate the dominant English language and revitalize the memory of the past. The novel, published in London with the help of E. M. Forster and Virginia Wolf and once banned in Pakistan, illustrates how the agency of memory can work to counter and even subvert the aftereffects of the forgetting and loss of language and lifestyle in Old Delhi because of British colonialism.

번역불가능성과 탈소유화: 새로운 지구적 세계문학의 가능성

손석주(Sohn, Sukjoo) 새한영어영문학회 2014 새한영어영문학 Vol.56 No.1

This paper questions the hegemonic construction of world literature, suggesting the ways in which it can be reconstituted in a critique of translatability and ownability. It examines how the failure of translation and possession can contribute to decentering the hegemonic global system and paving the way for a new world literature open to sharing in difference. Ultimately, it proposes the strategic use of untranslatability and dispossession for the practices of a new world literature in conjunction with Gayatri Spivak’s concept of planetarity. To that end, it problematizes and develops the definition of world literature proposed by David Damrosch to discuss ways of looking at untranslatability and dispossession from the perspectives of resistance and transformative agency. The limits and possibilities of world literature are explored in the context of texts by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, R. K. Narayan, Lewis Nkosi, Edgar Allan Poe, and anonymous collective writers, while I draw upon the theories of Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Bill Ashcroft, Franco Moretti, among others. The questions raised in Emily Apter’s controversial new book Against World Literature are also examined in a critical manner. This paper aims to demonstrate that the desirable ‘world’ of world literature is a place of constant negotiations where it is possible to counter the homogenization of difference, the minimization of alterity, and the exclusive ownership of literature.

지나 아포스톨의 『무기상의 딸』에 나타난 필리핀 독재와 식민지배에 관한 기억과 언어 전략

손석주(Sukjoo Sohn) 한국영미어문학회 2021 영미어문학 Vol.- No.140

Gina Apostol s Gun Dealers Daughter shows how memory and language work in the context of American (neo)colonialism and Philippine dictatorship. This paper examines the ways in which memory and language can counter the double bind of U.S. colonialism and Ferdinand Marcos s dictatorship in the Philippine context. In particular, it explores the meaning of forgetting aimed at overcoming the history of colonialism as well as the possibility of healing with the help of remembering. The relationship between the narrator and her alter ego shows how remembering and re-writing history are necessary to address the problems of the postcolonial Philippines. In this regard, this paper also pays attention to the ways in which dysgraphia, silence, pun, and catachresis can be used as counter-discursive strategies to raise the possibility of writing an alternative history as opposed to the hegemonic narrative.