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Set in the multicultural Chicago, Welsh’s short story revolves around an amusing tiff between the Korean chef of a restaurant, “Mystic Asia.” and Kendra, a white blonde woman who accuses the chef of kidnapping and cooking her pet dog. This seemingly innocuous episode of cultural misunderstanding, however, invites the reader to reexamine the difficulty of forming a cosmopolitan community as well as the new possibility of such community opened up by Welsh’s story. This essay undertakes two tasks. First, it briefly analyzes the flawed portrayal of Korea in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, a contemporary novel misleadingly celebrated for its embodiment of cosmopolitanism. In so doing, my essay asserts the need of distinguishing between Mitchell’s utopian novel and Welsh’s story that thoroughly investigates the downside of multiculturalism. The latter part of the essay borrows from Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of “inoperative community” in order to explain the problematic relationships displayed by the characters of Welsh’s story. I conclude that “The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park” provides a better example of cosmopolitan literature than Mitchell’s touristic novel does. This is because cosmopolitan literature emerges in revealing the daily culture war of different people(s) and portraying an “inoperative community” composed of the incompatible people(s).

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I. 들어가는 글
 II. 세계(World)문학에서 세계시민주의(Cosmopolitan)문학으로
 III. 세계시민주의소설 : 『구름지도』(Cloud Atlas)의 성취와 문제점
 IV. 「링컨공원의 개들」: 웰시의 한국문화 ‘맛’보기
 V. 낭시(와 웰시)의 “특이하고도 다원적인 존재”(Being Singular Plural)
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• 김수연 [ Soo Yeon Kim | 국민대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813