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Translation of the Concept of ‘Hybrid or Homogeneity’ and Review of the Concept of ‘Subject’

JunSungKon 1

1한림대학교

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The purpose of this study is to examine the mode of accepting Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s postcolonial theory in light of the ambivalence of hybridity and heterogeneity using the cases of Japanese translation languages. As Spivak’s postcolonial theory emerged as a ‘Global Thing,’ non-Western countries translated it and accepted its concepts, and yet this study notices that some problems were overlooked. First, there is a difference in terminology that appears in the Japanese and Korean translations. In fact, Spivak distinguishes between hybridity and heterogeneity, and explains the violence in perception using the interrelationship between the two concepts. To be specific, Spivak’s theory starts from a point that, as hybridity arises inside the Western framework, it argues for the dissolution of the Western subject, but that it is ultimately absorbed into the Western internal magnetic field. Spivak viewed heterogeneity as an attitude of constant criticism that the productive activities of discourse are not restored to homogeneity. Hybridity and heterogeneity also appear in translations, and between the native language and other languages. It is found that their understanding or interpretation is not the same even within the same language, which confirms that it is needed for the realization of the unity issue inside the community. Spivak explained the problem of the subject in Foucault’s concept of ambivalence using a process of closure in perception, and attempted to show the openness in perception through that process. In conclusion, this study recognizes that Spivak’s postcolonial theory does not lie in the categorization of concepts but in how to re-perceive the concepts. Based on this, the study traces these concepts back to Lukács’ concepts, examines the process of reconstructing those concepts, transforms it into the problem of ordinary colony, and thereby reviews the problem of violence in perception.

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