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• 영문명: To Clear away Orientalistic Problematics
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 김종갑(Jonggab Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제23권 3호, 59~81쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.10.30

영문 초록

It has been argued that our everyday scholarly practices of reading and writing have been saturated with Western theories and ideologies. They are regarded as orientalism within us: we are used to understand even ourselves through the orientalistic schema. Since the 1990s, armed with theories of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha, we have struggled to outgrow western-centered study and achieve academic autonomy and independence. The question then arises: “Is our study more authentic as we more strip away the western Other within us? It is my contention that to have such a problematic is the very proof that (s)he is still colonialistic, for it is based on the false dichotomies such as we and the other, the East and the West and then the following ideology of self as a unified one, not divided into self and the other. The authentic and subjectivisitic study does not mean the practice of study purified of western theories and influences, In order to be authentic we have to resist the temptation of an unified consciousness. which was a characteristic of colonialists while double consciousness was the lot of those colonialized. Double consciousness unsettles binary terms such as Korean self and Western others, domestic and foreign. As such, double consciousness is not something to be overcome, but something to be acknowledged and be a principle of authentic studies. The author will discuss the case of Yun Chiho in order to prove that if he had not forsaken a double consciousness he would not have become a pro-Japanese.

키워드

Post-colonialism orientalism double consciousness subjectivistic study problematics