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Dubbed “the forgotten war that never ended,” the Korean War is replete with senses of ambivalence, deferral, and repressed memory that resist Manichean constructions such as victim and perpetrator, national and foreign, friendly fire and enemy attack. Only a month into the war, it had become a commonplace assumption among U.S. military personnel that North Korean soldiers were masquerading as peasants and blending into refugee streams as a means of attacking troops from the rear; such suspicions foreground the No Gun Ri massacre, wherein 300 refugees were murdered by U.S. troops. Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and Termite reimagines the tragedy from an American soldier's standpoint and maps the catastrophic legacies of the Korean War via his disabled son, whose birth in rural West Virginia coincides with his father's death. In Toni Morrison's Home, on the other hand, a Black soldier’s wartime violence perpetrated to a Korean refugee girl lays bare how the Korean War was also a contested site of racism both inside and outside the U.S. Such refugee frames are divergently at the forefront of Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered, which likewise features a U.S. soldier in a humanitarian role and narrates a Korean War orphan's journey from stateless war subject to Korean American. By reading these three recent American novels together, this essay productively explores the intersection between war, disability narrative, and transnational homecoming. Charting the enduring effects of Korean War vis-à-vis the disabled subject, Lark and Termite, Home, and The Surrendered offer an oblique and still-relevant critique of U.S. exceptionalism, soldier liberation, and militarized humanitarianism.

목차

I. 들어가며 : 한국전쟁과 장애 서사(disability narrative)
 II. 제인 앤 필립스의 『라크와 터마이트』: 장애 서사로서의 한국전쟁과 미국개입의 당위성
 III. 토니 모리슨의 『고향』: 인종이라는 장애로서의 한국전쟁
 IV. 창래 리의 『항복한 자』(The Surrendered) : 세계전쟁사 속 한국전쟁
 V. 나가며 : 포스트내셔널(Post-national) 사회에서 한국전쟁의 의미
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저자

• 진주영 [ Ju Young Jin | 한국조지메이슨대학교 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813