• 비교문화연구
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• 제28권
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• pp.5-16
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• 2012

First published in 1934, George Orwell's Burmese Days, which can be read as an example of both descriptive realism and fictional realism, is considered to be a colonial example of British literature because of its publication date. However, based on the personal experience of the author as an imperial officer in Burma, the novel has an anti-imperialist tone, which can also make it possible to read it through postcolonial eyes. As a result, the novel stands as an example of ambivalence since it has both the colonial and the postcolonial perspective; both the colonizer and the colonized are portrayed with their own flaws, adding to the impact of what can be called "Third Space." This is why the voice of the imperial is heard in an anti-imperialist tone in Burmese Days, through which Orwell presents a critique of colonialism with a from-within approach.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제21권
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• pp.289-306
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• 2010

In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the narrator grows up with the burden of colonial legacies embedded with Englands' imperial disciplinary projects, its language, educational institutions, discourses. Colonial education interpellates the narrator into a colonial subject through its multiple ideological discourses and systems. Teaching the literature of England is the most insidious form of the Empire's disciplinary colonial projects, more powerful than military enforcement: Its mode of operation is creating phantasy and instigating and planting desire for such phantasy. As Homi Bhabha aptly theorizes as colonial mimicry and ambivalence, the narrator as colonial subject grows up split and confused as an ambivalent subject, simultaneously mimicking and desiring for the phantasized England as real, while resisting and criticizing such up-bringing and mimetic desire. This paper explores Kincaid's rhetorical strategy of employing Wordsworth's poem, "I Wandered as a Lonely Cloud," especially her use of the flower "daffodil." Employing the concept of "daffodil gap" suggested by postcolonial critics, this paper closely examines two episodes involving the flower daffodil in the novel, one in a colonial classroom and the other in a garden in a new world and suggests that Kincaid accomplishes intertextual critique of colonial education and imperial projects.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제17권
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• pp.113-134
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• 2004

According to Hans Kippenberg, the foundation of an academic study of religions coincided with the beginnings of modernization. Since the second half of the nineteenth century most European countries were involved in a process of rapid social change. The repercussions that this had for daily life were momentous. Instead of working for their traditional needs, people now had to produce goods for a market. Old customs ceded to private contracts and political laws. The superior knowledge of science replaced the inherited worldview. This deep changed severed societies from their ties to the past. Many educated people in Europe believed in an imminent end of all religions. Had not the scientific progress superseded the religious worldview? Historians had to come to terms with that expectation when they directed their attention to historical religions. Friedrich Max Muller introduced a new science, so-called Religionswissenschaft through the study of the ancient Vedic sources. He thought that genuine religion was a taste for, and sense of, the infinite. From his point of view, the Indian sources confirm that nature is more than mechanical laws. Thus his interpretation sought to contradict the materialist ideology of his day. Edward Burnett Tylor described religions as a kind of natural philosophy. His notion of 'soul' functioned to explain natural events. This legacy of the past cannot be missed even in modern society. Only the concept of the soul may preserve human dignity in an age of materialism. Gerardus van der Leeuw, also tried to perform the same function of the cultural critique for the renewal of the religious imagination in modern, rationalized Europe imprisoned in the iron-cage. In this respect, we could think that the interpretations of the history of the History of Religions in the light of the intellectual history are very suggestive for the korean student of religion. It helps them to describe the early history of the study of religion in Korea. For example, Yi Neung Wha(李能和) is regarded as 'a father of korean religious studies, but no one could present a proper answer for the question of why and through which connection of his intellectual milieu he was interested in the religious history and the study of religion. We would discover its signification in his confrontation of the prevailing social thought, such as social evolutionism.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.204-216
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• 2015

Fashion is changing and evolving everyday with an influence from and over contemporary socio-cultural factors. Cartoons expressing the phenomena of times through exchanges of mutual effects with socio-cultural factors that result from functionality and media characteristics. This study examines how fashion provides a great correlation with society-culture expressed in cartoons. The research segment of this study was conducted with literature and case studies; in addition, the UK cartoon magazine "Punch" was selected for the case study. The research findings of the fashion satire expression in cartoon were divided into 2 cases. The first case is that fashion was used as an instrument to satirize socio-cultural phenomena in cartoons. Various fashion elements (hats, dresses, words on T-shirts) were used for satiric expressions and to express periodic images related to politics, economics, society and culture. It communicated factually or criticized noteworthy phenomenon or age changes through the symbolism of fashion. The second case is that fashion itself is the object of satire in a cartoon. It satirically described the blind following and destruction of stereotype as direct objects. Fashion satire appeared in cartoons regardless of a correlation with age. Each cartoon fashion satire had meaning in both humor and criticism for satirizing the age. This study shows that fashion symbolism for satire of the reality has been used as the instrument of expression and simultaneously expressed as the object of the critique as an image and phenomenon that reflects reality. This study has significance in that it examined expressive modes of fashion satire in cartoons that escape from separating fashion from cartoon as a different area.

• 수완나부미
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.63-91
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• 2018

One of the goals of this article is to continue the momentum begun by emerging scholarship on theory and practice of writing about visual culture of and in Southeast Asia. I hope to offer culturally sensitive and embodied ways of looking at images and objects as sites/sights of cultural knowledge as further theoretical intervention. The argument put forward in my essay is three-fold: first, I critique the prevailing logocentric approach in the field of Southeast Asian Studies and I argue that in a postcolonial, global, and transnational period, it is important to be inclusive of other objects as sites/sights of social, political and cultural analysis beyond written and oral texts. Second, I argue that although it has its own political and theoretical problems, the evolving field of Visual Studies as it is practiced in the United States is one of many ways to decolonize the prevailing logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Third, I argue that if one reads these Euro-American derived theories of vision and visuality through the lens of what Walter Mignolo calls "colonial difference(s)," then Visual Studies as an evolving field has the potential to offer more nuanced local ways of looking at and understanding objects, vision, and visuality. Last, I point out that unlike in the West where there is an understanding of pure, objective and empirical vision, local Southeast Asian perspectives on objects and visions are more embodied and multi-sensorial. I argue that if one is ethically mindful of the local cultural ways of seeing and knowing objects, then the evolving field of Visual Studies offers a much-needed intervention to the privileged, lingering logocentric approach to Southeast Asian Studies. Moreover, these alternative methods might help to decolonize method and theory in academic disciplines that were invented during the colonial period.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제74권
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• pp.136-176
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• 2015

'문화 저널리즘'은 광의의 저널리즘의 한 분파이자 확립된 유형으로 존재해왔지만, 학술영역에서 문화 저널리즘의 특징과 현황을 분석하는 작업은 매우 희소하다. 이 연구는 제도언론 영역에서 추구되는 문화 저널리즘의 위상과 현황 그리고 실천이 과거와 비교해서 어떻게 달라졌는지를 파악하기 위해서 주요 일간지 문화면에 관한 내용분석을 실시했으며, 관련 학술자료와 기사들을 통한 질적인 해석을 함께 활용하였다. 분석 결과, 10년 전(2003~2004년)과 비교하여 현재(2013~2014년)의 신문 지면은 늘어난 데 반해, 문화 관련 기사의 전체 게재량은 감소했으며, 문화면 이외의 종합면 등 타 지면에 게재된 기사의 비율 또한 줄어들었다. 한편, 문화 콘텐츠에 중심을 두고 보도된 기사와 '지식 교양' 또는 '여가 오락'으로서 문화에 접근하는 관점의 기사들은 줄어든 반면, 문화현상을 '상품(광고)'과 '생활'로서 접근하는 기사들이 늘어났다. 이와 함께 '비평 리뷰 해설'을 담아내는 기사가 통계적으로 유의미하게 감소한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 문화 저널리즘의 중요한 기반으로 간주할 수 있는 '학술'과 '공연 전시 미술 음악' 같은 주제를 다루는 기사들은 줄어들었으며, 대중문화와 여행, 패션, 미용 등의 광의의 라이프스타일을 다루는 연성적인 주제들이 상당히 증가한 것으로 드러났다. 그리고 독자와 관객을 포함하는 수용자들의 기고가 일부 늘어났다는 점 외에 기고자의 선정이나 직업적인 특성에서 유의미한 수준의 변화는 관찰되지 않았으며, 독자를 직접 인용원으로 삼는 기사가 부분적으로 증가했다는 점 외에 직접 인용 취재원의 활용에서도 별다른 변화는 없었다. 이러한 연구 결과를 통해 볼 때, 문화콘텐츠의 역할이 크게 주목받는 사회문화적인 상황과는 달리 종합일간지 지면에서 이루어지는 문화 관련 보도와 기사의 생산은 양식적인 다양성과 구성적인 차별화 그리고 광의의 비평적인 관점의 제시라는 측면에서 상당한 한계를 드러내는 것으로 판단된다.

• 철학연구
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• 제137권
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• pp.57-79
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• 2016

이 논문은 현대 도덕 다원주의에 대한 매킨타이어의 비판을 살펴보고 그의 비판이 갖는 한계를 드러내고자 하는 글이다. 오늘날 우리 사회 문화의 두드러진 특징은 중요한 도덕적 문제들에 대한 의견의 차이가 좀처럼 합의를 이끌어내기 어렵다는 점이다. 낙태나 안락사와 같은 문제, 분배적 정의나 재산권 같은 문제, 전쟁과 평화와 같은 문제를 두고 일어나는 논쟁들은 곧장 주장과 반대 주장의 대립으로 귀착되고 만다. 왜냐하면 서로 대립되는 입장을 취하는 사람들이 서로 공통된 기준에 의해 평가할 수 없는 서로 다른 도덕적 전제들에 호소하고 있기 때문이다. 우리는 이러한 상황을 흔히 도덕적 다원주의라고 부르며, 이러한 상황은 자유주의 체제 아래서 사람들이 자신의 이성을 발휘한 자연스러운 결과라고 인정한다. 그러나 매킨타이어는 "덕의 상실"(After Virtue)에서 현대의 이러한 도덕적 다원주의 상황을 격렬히 비판하며, 그 원인은 이른바 '계몽주의적 기획'의 실패때문이라고 진단한다. 매킨타이어에 따르면, 지난 삼백년간 철학을 지배했던 계몽주의의 기획은 역사적 사회적 상황에 영향받지 않으면서 인간의 본성과 목적에 대한 특정한 이해에 좌우되지 않는 합리성의 개념을 마련하려고 하였다. 그러나 그러한 시도는 현실적으로 달성되지 못했을 뿐만 아니라 그러한 시도에는 근본적인 결함이 있기 때문에 결코 달성될 수가 없다. 그 결과 현대의 도덕과 정치 사상은 혼란 상태에 빠지게 되었으며, 이 혼란은 우리가 일종의 아리스토텔레스적인 패러다임으로 전환할 때에만, 그 본질적 요소인 목적론에 토대하여 실천 이성에 대한 설명을 구성할 때에만 벗어날 수 있다. 그러나 "덕의 상실"에서의 그 주장이 갖는 가장 어려운 난점 하나는 우리가 상황 속에 있는 존재, 이야기 속의 존재이기만 한 것이 아니라 우리는 기본적으로 나의 인생의 주인이자 나의 이야기의 저자라는 점에 주목할 때, 과연 현대라는 사회적 상황 속에서 그가 옹호하는 아리스토텔레스적 생각을 다시 적용하는 것이 가능할까 의심스럽다는 점이다. 아울러 자유로운 제도를 지속시키려고 한다면 도덕적 다원주의는 재앙이라기보다는 인간이성이 행사된 자연스러운 결과로 받아들여져야 할 것 같다는 점이다.

• 미술이론과 현장
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• 제10호
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• pp.85-103
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• 2010

Mona Hatoum and community make unlikely bedfellows. From her beginnings as a teenage exile to her maturity as an internationally celebrated artistic nomad, Hatoum defies classification within any single geographical or cultural community. Attempting, however, to locate specific points of contact between her and certain communities in terms of artist-in-residence projects in which she participated might be a particularly fruitful way of circumventing her notorious critical resistance to identity and her refusal of homogeneity. This paper starts with Miwon Kwon's critique of contemporary practices in community-based art, which locate an essentialising force that isolates a single point of commonality and overlooks authentic differences. It then turns to Jean-Luc Nancy's reconceptualization of community as 'unworked' and 'being-in-common' to provide analytical tools for avoiding the dangers of essentialism. By examining the three residencies that Hatoum accepted in the mid-1990s in the light of Nancy's observations and theories, and by bringing the idea of artistic nomadism and that of community into juxtaposition, we hope to show that Hatoum succeeds in finding an equilibrium between art and community, and that this sheds new light on the issues raised in recent discussions on such relationship.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.579-597
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• 2008

This article discusses David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as a suggestive text for examining Western masculinity in crisis in the post-imperialist age, in which territorial imperialism is no longer valid. Previous scholarship on M. Butterfly has centered around the interlocking dynamics of imperialism, racism and sexism. Such critical attentions focus on how Hwang deconstructs racialized significations of the East and the West. In these discussions, the issue of gender is often addressed merely as a trope to represent the power relations between the East and the West. As such, gender as well as sexuality is highlighted as the very source of subversion of the power relations. My discussion departs from a critique of the gendered trope of the East and the West, highlighting a postmodern agent, the allegedly feminized character Song Lining: a Chinese actor who passes for a woman for political purposes in postcolonial China. Remaining an "inappropriate/d other" in the gendered imperialist discourse, Song becomes an emergent subject, who is capable of playing gender ambiguity for reclaiming a devalued identity, that of homosexual Asian man. Discussing how the central character Rene Gallimard's masculine identity is constructed in a cross-cultural space and how it evolves, I also argue that Gallimard's melancholic death signifies a historical unsustainability of imperialist masculinity in the postmodern/postcolonial age since World War II.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.151-170
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• 2018

This paper examines the relationship and ideas of Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth including how they met, their correspondence and intellectual parallels, particularly in their shared criticism of Jewish ideals and culture in Europe and North America. It analyzes similarities in their careers and texts, especially between Eichmann in Jerusalem and Operation Shylock, as well as The Ghost Writer, while measuring their reception as social commentators and writers. Kafka was an important figure for both writers, Arendt's earliest writing engaged with the significance of Kafka in understanding and criticizing twentieth century political and cultural values in Europe. For Roth, Kafka offered a similar critique of moral principles he found corroded in North American Jewish life. Arendt connected with other writers, notably Isak Dinesen, W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell and William Styron who further linked the two: he knew both Arendt and Roth and cited, incorrectly, a work by Arendt as the source for the key incident in his 1979 novel Sophie's Choice. He claimed it was Eichmann in Jerusalem; it was Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt's reaction to Roth's fiction, however, remains a mystery: she died in 1975, before Roth began to seriously and consistently engage with Holocaust issues in works like The Ghost Writer (1979) and Operation Shylock (1993). Yet even in death they are joined. Their graves are only steps apart at the Bard College Cemetery in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.