미국학 (American Studies)

서울대학교 미국학연구소 (Seoul National University American Studies Institute)
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한국인 다시 되기: 최근 미국 연극에 나타난 성인 입양인의 귀환과 젠더 연습

Re-made in Korea: Adult Adoptees' Homecoming and Gendered Performance in Recent American Plays

  • 투고 : 2020.05.31
  • 심사 : 2020.06.24
  • 발행 : 2020.06.30

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초록

The essay examines two contemporary American plays that portray adult Korean American adoptees' return to South Korea: How to Be a Korean Woman (2012) by Sunmee Chomet and Middle Brother (2014) by Eric Sharp. While the existing scholarship on transnational adoption has discussed homecoming as a predominantly female experience of birth mothers and daughters, Chomet and Sharp suggest the differing ways in which the adoptee subjectivity is re-imagined in particularly gendered ways after homecoming. In these plays, adult adoptees' repeated, mundane bodily performances of Korean cultural norms illustrate how notions of femininity and masculinity are inscribed onto the body of adoptee individuals under the patriarchal system. Such performative construction of Korean-ness departs from the earlier theatrical representations of young, adolescent adoptees' homecoming that served as a symbolic rite of passage, a necessary process through which they would gain cultural hybridity and mature into cosmopolitan American-ness.

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과제정보

이 논문은 2017년 대한민국 교육부와 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임 (NRF-2017S1A5B5A01024588)

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