팔레스타인 소설에 나타난 유대인의 이미지 연구: 사하르 칼리파의 『 형상, 성상, 그리고 구약』을 중심으로
백혜원(아시아연구소 중앙아시아센터 공동연구원)
『동서문학비교저널』 71호
팔레스타인 문학에 나타난 유대인의 이미지는 팔레스타인인의 집단적 무의식을 어떻게 반영하고 있는가?
This study is an ‘image study’ on how Israel and Palestine, the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, perceive each other. It primarily analyzes contemporary Palestinian novels to examine the image of the Jews from the perspective of Palestinians. And this study analyzes the novel ‘The Image, the Icon and the Covenant’ (2002), which is considered a later work among the long novels of the Palestinian female writer Sahar Khalifeh. In addition, this study aims to examine the various types of Jewish images that appear in this novel based on Imagology, one of the main concepts in comparative literature studies. Through this, it will deeply analyze how Palestinians view the ‘other’ called Jews in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has continued for the past 80 years, and how the collective unconsciousness behind that view was formed. The various Jewish images that appear in this novel can be seen as a reflection of not only the personal perception of the author Sahar Khalifeh, but also the collective unconsciousness that exists in the minds of Arabs and Palestinians. And this collective unconsciousness seems to be part of an accumulation that was naturally formed according to changes in the times and environment, such as the mass migration of Jews, the establishment of Israel, the Middle East war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the search for mutual coexistence. Therefore, it is expected that this study will provide domestic researchers with an opportunity to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been unfamiliar and distant, the relationship between the Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians who were involved in it, their collective unconsciousness behind it, and the historical context in which this unconsciousness was formed.