이병주의 뉴욕 토포필리아와 접경의 상상력- 『허드슨 강이 말하는 강변 이야기』와 「제4막」을 중심으로- = Lee Byung-joo's Topophilia of New York and imagination of the contact-zone

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This paper aims to confirm Lee Byung-joo's Topophilia of New York, by analyzing how New York's identity of place is reproduced, focusing on Lee Byung-joo's novels, The Hudson River's story and Act 4.
Since his first visit to New York in 1971, Lee Byung-joo has lived in New York many times before his death, conceiving a novel set in New York and wanting to stay in New York until the end of his life. For Lee Byung-joo, New York is not simply an object of magnetism, but is related to ontological orientation. Above all, it can be said that Lee Byung-joo's love of place for New York was empirically formed based on the city's special place identity, which is distinct from the country of the United States.
The story of the Hudson River breaks up the city's single representation of New York through the radius of action of Shin Sang-il, starting in Harlem and crossing regions, reproducing New York as a grotesque and heterogeneous collection of lifestyles that cannot be explained or defined by the notions of good and evil. As the bar in Act IV symbolizes, the essence of New York is a city of "hybridity" where words and gestures, dance and music, language and language, race and race, class and class communicate, and multiple times and spaces coexist. In Greenwich Village, which features New York's openness and tolerance, those who have been deported beyond all races, classes and nationalities feel a sense of solidarity with emotional bonds and nostalgia for their hometowns When the essence of New York is hybridity, this hybridity is based on the fact that the lives of "miscellaneous people" are intercrossed and integrated. They are forming an "imaginary community" as global citizens with complex identities that are neither reduced to ethnicity nor assimilated to the United States. The Lee Byung-joo discovers the Pathos that these free individuals create by weaving them into equal and reciprocal relationships. In this sense, New York is a "border" where the lives, cultures, and history of various humans intersect and are adjacent.