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A Study on Popular Solidarity and Historical Consciousness in Kim Nam-ju’s Lyrical Poetry
Chunwon Research journal
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Chunwon Research journal
2020, (19), pp.179-206
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
2020, (19), pp.179-206
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
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This study aims to consider Kim Nam-ju’s intentions in her lyrical poetry. Clearly, for Kim Nam-ju, poetry was used as a weapon for the revolution, and it was a means to express his desire for revolution. However, it is not appropriate to analyze the entire Kim Nam-ju’s poetry as a struggle poetry. In the absence of poetic imagination, her poetry played a role in criticizing the historical philosophy that had become a myth, and summoned the abandoned people and their history through lyricism Through the discourse of modernization, Korean society has forgotten the history of humiliation, which fell from colony under Japanese rule to American rule. The dictators were drowned in the history of illusions in that manner. Kim Nam-ju tried to restore the history of the people floating outside of history in the style of lyrical poetry. It is not easy to analyze Kim Nam-joo's lyricism as a general theory of lyricism in Korean poetry. In Korean literature, the concept of 'Lyric' has expanded based on concepts such as identity and unity with the world and subjectivity. However, this study tries to approach the problem of lyric as a concept that causes interaction between subjects. In other words, Kim Nam-ju's poem is appropriately embodying the characteristic of lyricism called emotional transference. In the Kim Nam-ju’s lyrical poetry, the individual experiences of the poetic narrator are expanded to the public and the whole country. Furthermore, this aspect of expanding awareness also influences her insight into the history of the erased people. Kim Nam-ju uses poetic allegory to capture the voices of the people and their history enduring in an absurd reality It summons the abandoned memories of the rural communities and Gwang-ju, the space of the wounded people. This study believes that the way Kim Nam-ju captures history can be analyzed through Benjamin's theory. Therefore, it aims to explore Kim Nam-ju's lyrical poems using Benjamin's historical cognition theory and the concept of allegory.
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