아시아계 미국문학에 나타난 동물성과 유목적 주체에 대한 연구 -킹스톤 소설을 들뢰즈적 관점에서 읽기 = A Study of Animality and Nomadic Subject in Asian American Literature -Deleuzian Reading of Kingston`s Novels

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Asian minorities had a little role in the huge multiplicity of American society. They were simply descendents of immigrants from minor nations who were considered as a labour force. However, the rise of literary works by minority descendants from Japan, China, and Korea started with the promotion of the minorities` status in America, which in return has prompted the minority writers to produce more literary works. Among other singularities in the works, the distinguishing feature appears as a metamorphosis from man to animal or to something like what is associated with a figure of the half man and half animal as in myths or paintings. Why do such human figures appear in the literary texts? This question leads us to think over the role of minorities and their works. Their positive role does rarely surface but their virtual capability functions to make the huge American multiplicity undergo a dynamic change. That is, the molecular movement made by the minorities is cracking-up the molar norms of the white-oriented American society so that the society cannot but receive the change of norms in the white dominant cultures. Eventually the movement has the momentum to build a new America. Monkey-becoming and stork-becoming show good examples of main characters in transformation who contribute to the building of new society.