@article{ART003399412},
author={Youn-ho Oh},
title={A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2026},
volume={19},
number={2},
pages={203-246},
doi={10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203}
TY - JOUR
AU - Youn-ho Oh
TI - A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2026
VL - 19
IS - 2
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 203
EP - 246
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This paper reads Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop (2010) from the perspective of performative interculturality and analyzes how the intercultural identity of an orphan boy and a “stepworld” take shape. Performative interculturality refers to the logic by which intercultural subjects and communities are constituted retroactively through repeated practices in which heterogeneous bodies and times meet and diverge within a particular space. Chapter III examines how scars connect heterogeneous bodies to one another, as well as the counter-spatial character of the hillside neighborhood of Itaewon where these bodies dwell. Chapter IV examines how the characters’ everyday performances open fissures in religious, familial, and racial norms, and how these performances converge in the event of a picnic. It then analyzes how performative citizenship takes shape and the “stepworld” emerges through the boy’s final declaration that he will “adopt the world.” This stepworld is not a product of empathy or understanding; it is a coexistence of heterogeneous bodies that endure together without ever fully understanding one another. This reading calls for rereading Korean multicultural fiction since the 2000s as narratives of a process in which settled residents and migrants transform one another. Furthermore, by viewing interculturality as a process of mutual influence and shared making, this perspective can offer new directions for intercultural education and policy.
KW - Son Hong-gyu;The Islamic Butcher Shop;Performative Interculturality;Entanglement of Scars; Heterotopia
DO - 10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
ER -
Youn-ho Oh. (2026). A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 19(2), 203-246.
Youn-ho Oh. 2026, "A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.19, no.2 pp.203-246. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh "A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19.2 pp.203-246 (2026) : 203.
Youn-ho Oh. A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance. 2026; 19(2), 203-246. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh. "A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19, no.2 (2026) : 203-246.doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh. A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 19(2), 203-246. doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh. A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2026; 19(2) 203-246. doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh. A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance. 2026; 19(2), 203-246. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
Youn-ho Oh. "A Study of Performative Interculturality in Son Hong-gyu’s The Islamic Butcher Shop - Focusing on Scars, Counter-Space, and Repetitive Performance" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19, no.2 (2026) : 203-246.doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.2.203
