• 비교문화연구
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• 제52권
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• pp.223-251
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• 2018

이 글은 한국과 일본의 문학사 기술에서 '전후'라는 개념을 어떻게 다루고 있는지 비교 고찰한 것이다. 일본문학사에서 '전후'는 제2차 세계대전(아시아태평양전쟁)종결 이후를 의미하는 반면, 한국문학사에서는 주로 '한국전쟁 이후'를 가리킨다. 서로 다른 전쟁 이후를 가리키면서도 양국에서는 동일하게 '전후'라는 용어를 사용한 탓에 '전후'에 관한 이해에서 혼선이 빚어졌고, 특히 한국전쟁을 기점으로 하여 양국에서는 완전히 상반된 전후를 상상하고 있었다. 다시 말해 한국전쟁은 한국문학에서는 전후의 출발을 의미했지만 일본문학에서는 전후의 종언을 알리는 분기점이 되어 매우 대비적인 효과를 초래했던 것이다. 그러나 양국이 전경화시킨 '전후'란 각국의 서사 전략 혹은 담론의 정치와 밀접하게 결부되어 있는 것으로, 양국이 '전후' 담론을 통해 달성하려 했던 과제가 무엇이었는지 점검해 보면 서로 다른 두 '전후'의 이데올로기의 허구성은 당장에 노정된다. '전후'에 내재된 이데올로기의 해체는 일국사, 일국 문학사에서 '전후'를 해방시킬 수 있을 때 비로소 가능해질 수 있을 것이며 한일문학사에서의 '전후' 인식 비교와 교호 가능성 탐색도 그러한 작업의 일단이라 볼 수 있을 것이다.

• 인문언어
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.175-212
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• 2002

This paper centers on the erstwhile novelist Kim Seung-ok with a focus not only on his watershed works of the 1960s, but also on his lesser-known works of the 1970s as well as on the circumstances and possible reasons for his decision to quit writing in the 1980s. His works from the 60s address certain basic human contradictions and are in this respect timeless, and these same works are also firmly grounded in their larger socio-cultural contexts of 1960s Korea. This article attempts to place the word firmly here sous rature. In new critical terms, the Kim's settings can not be understood as anything but Korea, in the then and now. This characteristic is shared, however, with highly ideological literature that at times seems to want to beat the reader over the head with the problems and author-sponsored solutions of then and now. In order to understand Kim's paradoxical position in Korean literary history, one must view his works from within the context of the debate between pure and engagement literature.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

As an aging population is increasing, more elderly people are exposed to traumatic stress. Although this issue has received more attention in some literature, it is clear that numerous questions exist in aftermath of trauma exposure in elderly people. In case of Korean elderly suffers, traumatic experience includes the Korean war, military dictatorship and violent demonstration. Studies regarding elderly PTSD is not active and a lot of patients are not still engaged in treatment. We suggest that concerns that are unique to this population are necessary.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.1339-1360
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• 2010

An analogical reading of socio-historical context of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker employs some postcolonial discursive analyses of postimperial British capitalistic interests in their post war reconstruction. It is also concerned with causes of so-called broken society. The Caretaker dramatizes minimal actions: a tramp is invited by the elder brother; a job as caretaker is offered; he is reluctant to accept the first offer by the elder brother, but is willing to the second by the younger; eventually, he is excluded because he makes noises while dreaming. These trivial actions produce serious and critical speech acts with their socio-historical implications. The tramp Davies is socially and thereby existentially excluded from the centre of the cold, banished to even colder peripheries. The audience face to the question. Why is Davies excluded? This study tries to answer the question, uncovering deep-rooted capitalistic racism, and reading its symptoms. Even after 50 years The Caretaker was staged, post-imperial broken society tries to operate the betrayals of disparity between the cause and effect of what has gone wrong. Pinter confirms that the action of the play takes place in a house in west London. With the city of London as its capitalistic centre, British imperialism lavished much of its wealth which has only served sectional interests dividing people against themselves. Pinter dramatizes the root of broken society. On the one hand, Pinter foregrounds the very general conflicts between individuals and forms of power; on the other hand, he underlies the very specific strategies of socio-historical exploitation, domination and exclusion.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.529-552
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• 2011

My essay aims at reading Ginsberg's "Howl" and "Kaddish" with the concept of 'shaman-prophet-poet' to illustrate the dynamic relationship between his poetics and radical politics. Throughout his widely-ranging career, Ginsberg represents himself as a poet-prophet and commands a typical rhetoric of revelation as a way of decentering Cold War orthodoxies. While well aware of the oppressive and pervasive power of the dominant post-war ideologies, he adopts 'madness' to oppose conventional political, social, and religious institutions; by way of entering into the madness of this world and actively engaging himself as a victim, he can finally heal both himself and the world. This dual function of poet characterizes his rhetoric of revelation, but it doesn't appeal to the mainstream of American critical ideology where the post-structural approach to language and subject gives a skeptical look at any account of active human agency and humanistic belief in the possibility of language. In "Howl" and "Kaddish," Ginsburg persuades the reader of the truth of his own vision through the convincing and realistic portraits of his contemporaries as well as his own mother and family. Different from his visionary predecessors such as Emerson and Whitman, Ginsberg knew the difficulty of a negotiation between history and divine vision, and attempted to imbricate his family, friends, and even the larger social and political units within his visionary experience in order to avoid naive idealism, escapism, or solipsism. Furthermore, he deconstructs the Logos of Western prophecy and replaces it with the groundless identity and the nontheistic epistemology of Buddhism, which, in turn, leads to emptying his powerful language of absolutist meaning and prevents his prophecy from becoming re-reified as divine essentialism. Ginsberg's idea of poet and poem revitalizes the skeptical view on language and literary representation of our contemporary critical community which is unwilling to engage the experimental scope of his radical prophecy.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.579-597
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• 2008

This article discusses David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as a suggestive text for examining Western masculinity in crisis in the post-imperialist age, in which territorial imperialism is no longer valid. Previous scholarship on M. Butterfly has centered around the interlocking dynamics of imperialism, racism and sexism. Such critical attentions focus on how Hwang deconstructs racialized significations of the East and the West. In these discussions, the issue of gender is often addressed merely as a trope to represent the power relations between the East and the West. As such, gender as well as sexuality is highlighted as the very source of subversion of the power relations. My discussion departs from a critique of the gendered trope of the East and the West, highlighting a postmodern agent, the allegedly feminized character Song Lining: a Chinese actor who passes for a woman for political purposes in postcolonial China. Remaining an "inappropriate/d other" in the gendered imperialist discourse, Song becomes an emergent subject, who is capable of playing gender ambiguity for reclaiming a devalued identity, that of homosexual Asian man. Discussing how the central character Rene Gallimard's masculine identity is constructed in a cross-cultural space and how it evolves, I also argue that Gallimard's melancholic death signifies a historical unsustainability of imperialist masculinity in the postmodern/postcolonial age since World War II.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.161-188
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• 2020

이 논문은 현대소설사 연구에서 잊힌 작가 곽하신의 소설세계의 전체 면모를 복원, 분석함으로써 문학사의 외연을 확장하고자 한다. 이를 위해 곽하신 작품세계의 단절 내지 비연속성에 주목하여 식민지기와 전후로 시기를 크게 분절하고, 각 시기 작품세계의 특징을 로컬(식민 시기), 룸펜(전후), 경제적 인간(전후 일부 단편, 장편대중소설)이라는 세 좌표를 중심으로 분석하고자 한다. 2장 '로컬-『문장』지의 세계관'에서는 30년대 후반 『문장』지에 집중 발표된 곽하신의 소설이 사라져가는 것들에 대한 비애, 전근대적인 시간의식, 로컬-향토에 대한 지향성을 뚜렷하게 드러냈다는 점에서 일제 말기 문학의 한 흐름인 반(反)근대의 미의식을 구현하였다고 평가하였다. 3장 '룸펜-전후 남성(성)의 형성(1)'과 4장 '만인에 대한 만인의 투쟁 상태, 경제적 인물의 등장-전후 남성(성)의 형성(2)'에서는 50년대 말 전쟁이라는 비상시국을 경유해 전후 저개발 자본주의 국가에 진입한 한국사회의 현실이 한편으로는 룸펜, 루저 남성으로, 다른 한편으로는 공리주의나 승자독식의 세계관을 체현한 남성이라는 대조적인 남성-젠더의 출현으로 형상화 된다고 파악했다. 50년대 말 '룸펜' 소설들은 한국 경제의 문제점을 허약한 남성(성)을 통해 보여주었다. 남성-젠더/지식인은 삶의 토대가 마련되지 못 한 전후 현실에서 자신의 무능력과 불안을 여성/아내에게 투사하거나 도덕이나 친밀성보다 생존을 도모하는 길을 취한다. 특히 4장에서 분석한 대중소설 <여인의 노래>, <무화과(無花果) 그늘>에는 입신출세를 위해 동료를 배신하거나, 음모를 꾸미거나, 연애관계를 이용하여 여성의 성을 착취하는 성취지향적인 남성인물, 만인에 대한 만인의 투쟁 상태를 체현한 경제적 인간들이 등장한다. 자신이 살아남기 위해서 남을 밟고 일어서야 하는 약육강식의 경제적 인간이 전후 남성 젠더로 구축되는 과정을 선악의 대립이라는 대중소설의 형식을 빌려 보여주는 것이다. 지금까지 살펴본 바와 같이 곽하신은 식민 시기 한국어로 글쓰기, 문학 하기의 마지막 세대에 해당한다는 점, 저널리즘적 세태묘사, 대중소설의 양식을 빌려 전후문학의 범례를 제공했다는 점에서 문학사의 주변에서 외연을 확장한 작가로 재평가될 필요가 있다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.107-127
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• 2011

Don DeLillo has shown considerable interest in terror, frequently depicting extreme dread of something terrible to happen, in his literary texts. Since more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the 9-11 terrorist attack in 2001, the anticipation about what kind of fiction he would write as a New Yorker was high. DeLillo's novel Falling Man (2007) in fragmentary detail represents the scene of the terrorism from the perspective of Keith Neudecker, a lawyer who escapes the collapsing world trader center. Neudecker's post-traumatic stress disorder in the first chapter is followed by the free-associative portrayal of various impacts of the 9-11 terror on Neudecker's wife Lienne in the second chapter. The random mixture of the first person narratives from such diverse view-point characters as Neudecker's son Justin, relatives and friends, with dialogues and recollections yields a very close picture of the consequences of terrorism. Reading DeLillo's Falling Man in juxtaposition with a Japanese Canadian novel Obasan by Joy Kogawa, reminiscences of the maltreatment of Japanese Canadians during and after the second world war, surfaces the authorial intention of the two novels. They as trauma literature emerge to aim at curing the readers and proposing post-traumatic ethics. Laurie Vickroy's theory of trauma narrative and cure, E. Ann Kaplan's theory of trauma witness narrative and responsibility, and Emmanuel Levinas's theory of trauma memory and ethics offer theoretical grounds for the convincing analysis of the two texts.

• 동양고전연구
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• 제68호
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• pp.69-97
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• 2017

본 연구는 조선조 정묘호란과 병자호란을 경험한 직후 창작된 문학작품들을 검토하여, 전란이 남긴 좌절과 상처의 기억을 문학적으로 극복하고자 한 사례들을 살피고 그 의미에 대해 밝히는 것을 목적으로 한다. 특히 이 시기에 제출된 일련의 문학 작품들이 가지고 있는 공통분모를 확인하여, 당시 지식인들이 문학이라는 도구를 통해 전쟁에 대한 기억을 어떤 방식으로 극복하고 재구하였는지를 살피고자 하였다. 이를 통해 명(明)나라에 대한 의리와 청(淸)나라에 대한 적대감이 팽배했던 당시 조선의 국가적 담론이 문학적으로 구현된 양상을 확인할 수 있을 것이다. 똑같은 외침(外侵)이었지만 임진왜란 이후의 문학 작품들이 전쟁으로 인한 참상 애상 비분 통분의 감정을 위주로 드러낸 데 비해, 정묘 병자호란 이후의 문학 작품들은 국가적 담론의 문제를 문학의 영역으로 끌어들여 구체화하는 양상이 확인된다. 본 논문에서는 특히 그 가운데 당대에 국가 차원에서 담론으로 제기되었던 복수설치와 대명의리 의식이 문학의 장(場) 위에서 어떤 방식으로 구현되었으며, 그 의의는 무엇인지에 주목하였다. 구체적으로는 역사 인물들을 제재로 한 문학 작품들을 통해 그 양상을 확인하고자 하였다. 이처럼 본 논문에서는 문인지식인들에 의해 주도되었던 당시의 국가적 담론이 문학 작품에서는 어떤 양상으로 반영되었는지 살피고 그 의미에 대해 검토하였다. 결론적으로 이 당시에 자주 언급되었던 역사 인물들은 정묘 병자호란이 남긴 정신적 상처를 당시의 지식인들의 나름의 방식으로 극복하기 위해서였음을 확인하였다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제27권
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• pp.81-104
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• 2012

This paper looks into the complexity of the comparative and conflictive elements portrayed on the novel Nada. Through the interpretation of the actions of the female characters, we can classify them into two different categories: pro-Franco and anti-Franco system. Thus, for example, the character Ena is an active, intellectual and liberal woman capable to manipulate and control men who lives at her own free will. This active and liberal personality is clearly not the favored type of woman under Franco, which prefers a society where men are the dominant figures. Another female character, Gloria, places herself far from the Catholicism based morality during the Franco period as she is having an affair with her husband's brother. We also find examples of the opposite, that is, affinity with Franco ideals, such as Angustias' decision to become a member of the convent, in line with the motto "Spain, united and great, through Catholicism"; the example of Ena's mother, nurturing six sons and daughters, also resonates with Franco ideology of a woman's role in the Spanish society, being mostly a reproductive instrument. One of the topics of this novel is the confrontation between the prewar petit bourgeoisie and the new postwar bourgeoisie. We can appreciate a big difference between the lifes of Andrea's family and Pons' family. Andrea has friendly relationships with friends from the new bourgeoisie; however, these interactions are not genuine, but superficial. Because of that, we also conclude that this novel reflects the underlying conflicts between different social strata. We also observe the conflicts and confrontations between republicans and nationalists in this society, through the relationships between two brothers, Juan y $Rom{\acute{a}}n$. During the civil war, Juan collaborates with the national faction, while $Rom{\acute{a}}n$ joins the republican faction. Consequently, they separate from each other due to their different ideologies. We will conclude that this novel also reflects on the idea that the Spanish civil war destroyed fraternity and separated families.