디아스포라아동청소년문학에드러난한국전쟁서사 되번역하기—『지켜야 하는 아이』문화번역과 대체 전략사례를 중심으로
Re-translating Diasporic Young Adult Korean War Narratives: Cultural Translation and Substitution in the Korean Translation of Brother’s Keeper
- 발행
- 2026
- 소속·발행
- 연세대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2026-06-30
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개념
키워드
Brother’s Keeper, 지켜야 하는 아이, 문화번역, 되번역, 현지화, 아동청소년 문학, 디아스포라 문학, Brither’s Keeper, Cultural Translation, Re-Translation, Localization, Young Adult Literature, Diasporic Literature
초록
This article examines the Korean translation of Julie Lee’s Brother’s Keeper as a case of cultural-translational recontextualization in diasporic Korean War literature for young readers. As the translator of the Korean edition, I analyze the double process of cultural translation—which I term re-translation—through which a Korean War narrative, already mediated by a Korean American author for English-speaking young adult readers, is translated again for Korean-speaking young readers. The article focuses on localization strategies centered on the substitution of culture-specific items. In the Korean translation, translation couplets and explanatory references attached to Korean terms are deleted or minimized, while expressions of everyday culture and dialect are strengthened to evoke Korean readers’ temporal, spatial, and cultural sensibilities. By contrast, references to Christianity, America, the American Dream, and Cold War discourses of freedom are generalized or attenuated in light of Korean young readers’ educational expectations and historical sensibilities. I argue that these substitutions do not simply return Korean elements to Korean or assimilate the source text into the