수치의 윤리와 전쟁 생존자

• 영문명: The Ethics of Shame and the War Survivors: Focusing on Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 황은덕(Eundeog Hwang)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제143호, 119~141쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2021.12.31

영문 초록

This paper explores that the shame persisted and maintained by the three war survivors in Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered is an ethical force arising from relationships with others, and it ultimately becomes a moral power to help and save others’ lives. The protagonists, especially Sylvie and Hector, suffer from war trauma, and they often find themselves into the passive and self-destructive state. However, the protagonists’ shame turns out to be a driving force of their moral actions since ‘the ability to feel and experience shame’ is an important factor to maintain humanity. The effect of shame underlying the passivity and self-destructivity of the protagonists made us think about humanity or dignity as a human being that even horrific war experiences could not completely destroy. Moreover, none of the three protagonists can properly express the tragedy of war they experienced because they can not express the ‘unspeakable things’ by words or writing. Even though the protagonists don’t have the ability to express the tragedy of the war they experienced, they are the ones maintained the ‘ethics of shame’ through the interlocking process of the subject-nonsubject-subject. This shows that human existence is constantly on the move and sways in the gap between the subject/nonsubject and humanity/inhumanity. Even in the world of metaphoric Auschwitz, where it is ‘always and already repeated’, the ethics of shame will remain persistently in humans and play a role in maintaining humanity.

목차

1. 서론

2. 수치 정동과 윤리적 주체의 탄생

3. 전쟁과 수치

4. 수치, 죄의식, ‘사도마조히즘의 영역’

5. 수치의 스펙트럼과 ‘도덕적 힘’

6. 수치의 윤리와 ‘탈주체화를 증언하는 주체’

7. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

『항복자』 이창래 수치 전쟁 생존자 수치 정동 수치의 윤리 죄의식 도덕적 힘 한국전쟁 프리모 레비 조르지오 아감벤 The Surrendered Chang-rae Lee shame war survivor the effect of shame the ethics of shame guilty moral emotion Korean War Primo Levi Giorgio Agamben