장애와 공간에 대한 문학적 상상력 - 「순례자들은 왜 돌아오지 않는가」를 중심으로 - = Literary Imagination about Disability and Space - Focusing on Why do pilgrims not return

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Disability has been recognized as a defect that creates the borderline between normal and abnormal. However, disability can be seen as a experience of human origin that everyone experiences in their individual lives. Therefore, it is currently necessary to loosen the borderline between disability and non-disability, and to imagine a society of mutual dependence and a space of ‘enablement’ that naturally accepts the experience of living in between. In this paper, I analyzed it centering on the two spaces of Why do pilgrims not return.
The main character DN with a disability, dreamed of a world without disabilities through making the perfect human, but the birth of ‘new mankind’ only separates the space into ‘center’ and ‘periphery’. In response, DN creates a space(village) for people who do not perceive differences, but this space becomes a space of Identity that does not feel difference. The space of perfect human or the space of people that does not recognize differences are all based on the Identity. The Others do not appear in the space of identity. Accordingly, the people of the ‘village’ stay on Earth where they can discover the Others. Where they stay is the borderline between the center and the periphery, that is, the borderline between the normal and the abnormal. They try to resist ‘separation’ in solidarity with the Others here, loosen the borderline between the center and the periphery, and create an alternative space.
Currently, our society is moving in the direction of affirming various aspects of life, but the discourse on disability still remains at ‘crossing borderline’. In order to make the solid borderline between normal and abnormal flexible, it is necessary to diagnose Identity of our society and secure a critical eye on its one-sidedness.

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