몸의 실천: 용서와 화해의 기제 -쿳시 소설을 중심으로-

This paper is to explore the role of rulers' as well as others’ bodies from a postcolonial perspective. I focus on how rulers repent for their sins and beg forgiveness through their bodies. First, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Others’ bodies symbolize the history of oppression in the colonial system, and a ruler, the magistrate represents others’ pains through his body. Next, in Age of Iron, an old white woman deeply understands others through her sick body and confesses her original sin as a white in the apartheid period of South Africa. In Disgrace, a white woman through her experience of being raped by three black men, recognizes the sin of the colonialist and seeks for the world of coexistence between whites and blacks in the post apartheid period of South Africa. In these works, rulers all realize the fault of racial discrimination and pursue the harmonious world of whites and blacks through their bodies’ experiences.