The purpose of this paper is to examine how the aspect of heterotopia is realized and formed, with a focus on Baek Heena's picture book Moon Pops, The bath Fairy, I'm a dog, and Magic Candies. Based on this analysis, two main conclusions are drawn. Fi...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the aspect of heterotopia is realized and formed, with a focus on Baek Heena's picture book Moon Pops, The bath Fairy, I'm a dog, and Magic Candies. Based on this analysis, two main conclusions are drawn. First, in Moon Pops and The Bath Fairy, ‘water’ functions as both a place and contra-space that challenges modern civilization. It mobilizes imagination toward the outside, drawing from the historical and cultural contexts of 'apartments' and 'public baths' in Korea. These contra-spaces make us imagine the outside of the norms of arrangement that otherize the now-here and operate within this space. In this sense, 'water' reveals the heterochronia of the past and present by positioning apartments and public baths―symbols of modernization in Korea―as spatial others. Second, in I’m a dog, and Magic Candies, ‘sound’ is connected to humans, animals, objects, and nature, which allows it to penetrate the body's space, secure areas, and sensibly recognize that all beings are interconnected through various sounds. In other words, ‘sound’ becomes a passage that leads the space closed by the suppression and anxiety of reality to an open heterotopic space where the senses are alive.