트랜스내셔널 문학으로서의 최명희의 <몌별> 분석 = Analysis of Author Choi Myung-hee`s Book < Myebyul > as a Transnational Literature.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Today`s Korean society is transforming into a more multicultural society with increasing number of foreign residents, including spouse-sponsored immigrant women, foreign or migrant workers and international students. Such rise in Korea`s multiculturalism spawned legions of books with related themes, with many of them classified as Diaspora Literature or Transnationalism Literature. While the diaspora literatures depict the foreign migrants as outsiders who belong to the fringe or inferior group of the society, transnationalism literatures focus on the active and positive characteristics of the migrant sand give insights of the universal human rights and the truth. Author Choi Myung-hee`s < Myebyul > can be classified as a transnational literature, as the novel describes the love and breakup of a relationship between a Taiwanese man studying in Korea and a Korean woman. The two results in a breakup as they face language barriers arose from different point of views: speaking Korean as a native member of the Korean society and speaking Korean as a foreigner in the society. The woman encounters continuous difficulties in communicating with the man and finds the weakening function of signifiers in a language, leading to the realization the instability of linguistic communication. Despite the man`s active endeavors to adapt into the Korean society and to learn its language, Korean as the basic means of communication was unable to be realized and their love fails as a result of the frustration in the advanced language communication. Title of Author Choi`s book `Myebyul` means a painfully sad separation that makes it hard to ease the firm grip holding onto the other`s sleeve, which successfully describes the linguistic discourse with a story of the language barrier and following frustrations of a couple with different mother tongues. The book provides an in-depth examination of human as a linguistic animal that drifts into the chaos where endless string of signifiers appear without the signified and of the universal but fundamental attributes of the humankind. < Myebyul > is thereforea rare literary work found in Korea with transnational literature qualities.

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