『스튜어트 리틀』의 입양 내러티브

Adoption Narrative in Stuart Little

The discourse of adoption has been dominated by adoption agencies and adoptive parents, not adoptees themselves. Under this situation, the adoptees' voice has been in silence for a long time. In transracial adoption, the grateful aspects of adoption that love sees no color are overly emphasized; racism working behind the scenes is often ignored. The aim of this study is to examine the adoption narrative, comparing the novel and the movie version of Stuart Little written by E. B. White. In the novel, Stuart wins the boat race without the help of his family and he becomes a substitute teacher in the school, which shows that he has a meaningful relation with the society he lives in. At the end of the novel Stuart leaves for the North of New York to find his ideal, feeling that he is headed in the right direction. This course of the novel means that Stuart is in a situation of retrieving and maintaining a connection with his culture of origin while fully participating in the dominant culture. However, Stuart portrayed as a white mouse in the movie reveals a strong desire to belong to a white family despite the difference from his appearance and size as a mouse. With Stuart assimilated into the white family, the movie shows that he relinquishes one's birth culture and fully embraces that of dominant culture.