한국의 혼혈인 문제와 세계화 시대의 교양교육 : 데이비드 L. 메스(2010)의 『이태원 아이들』을 중심으로

Abstract

The mixed-blood issue in Korea is served as index showing effectively how the Koreans responded to the heterogeneous others. American author David L. Math materialized the issue of mixed-blood born between the American soldier In Korean and Korean woman. Math criticized the racial discrimination in Korea that has discriminated and excluded the mixed-bloods under the ideology of single-race and the patriarchal kinship by bringing the black mixed-blood Byung-Seok as hero in his novel A Hint of Light. This novel produces the discourse of representing the hierarchical orientalism of “Korea=inferior, America = superior” that affirms Great America through the mixed-blood issue in Korea. A Hint of Light by Math reveals its limitation in the aspect that it shows partly the narration and distorted literary embodiment of orientalism. Nevertheless, A Hint of Light by Math is an useful texts enough to literary education in the college in the aspect that it provides the acute debate on the racial discrimination issue in Korea. Solving the mixed-blood issue correctly is to establish the identity of global citizen and at the same time, it is the opportunity to find the identity of global citizen. The literary education in the college should be important foundation to make the identify of global citizen.