한국 여성의 삶은 번역될 수 있는가? - 2010년대 한국 여성 작가 소설의 영어권 번역 되짚기 = Can the Lives of Korean Women be translated?- Rethinking English Translations of Novels by Korean Women Writers in the 2010s

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The translation of novels by Korean women writers has increased rapidly since the 2010s. Considering this phenomenon in terms of the feminist turn in mid-2010s Korean literature, this paper discusses the (un) translatability of the lives of Korean women. To answer the questions of what, how, and why some aspects of Korean women’s lives are translated in certain ways, and conversely, what, how, and why they are not, this paper critically analyzes the English translations of three novels that marked milestones in the translation of Korean women writers’ works in the 2010s: Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom, Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, and Cho Nam-joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. More fundamentally, this study seeks to understand the politics of translation that emerges and functions as the lives of Korean women are translated into Western languages, particularly English.