2015, Vol.41, No.

The Memory Sttruggle Surrounding Battle of Okinawa and 4.3 Jeju Massacre - Based on Island of the Gods Island of Oshiro Tatsuhiro and Sooni's Uncle of Hyun, Ki Young

SON Ji-Youn | 2015, 41 | pp.7~32 | number of Cited : 5

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The Active Way of Trauma: Receiving the Return of the Past

Gilwan, Seoh | 2015, 41 | pp.33~56 | number of Cited : 8

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Trauma studies have provided useful models for dealing with the catastrophic and disastrous events that an individual and collective group experience. Most important of all, the perspective of post-structuralist trauma study, including Cathy Caruth, became a paradigmatic model and it has been applied to almost all contexts of life. The perspective of this study model, which is called an “event-based model of trauma,” focuses on the literal registration of the traumatic event and the accurate and immediate recall of the past. The person directly involved in the event becomes the passive bearer transmitting the truth of a traumatic event. From this perspective, the traumatic subject only undergoes and endures the event and cannot play an active role in constructing trauma and dealing with it. Eventually, the truth of trauma has to be obtained at the cost of the traumatic subject’s autonomy and the possibility of his/her agency. The problem here is that the truth, which is reencountered through the literal return of the past, obtained at the cost of the subject’s autonomy, strikes a rather fatal blow to the person, than gives help for resolving many of matters surrounding traumatic experience and curing trauma. This suggests that the active way of dealing with trauma on the part of the traumatic subject, rather than the traumatic event itself, is demanded. Furthermore, because more recently, images of disastrous events were viewed “live” by audiences and an immediacy to the event is replicated in public discourse about them, the event becomes more immediately traumatic and there is a more strong presumption that people regard themselves as traumatic victims than before. This is the reason that we must explore an active way dealing with trauma on more human position at this time. This essay aims to examine the limits of the paradigmatic model of trauma study, an “event-based model of trauma,” critically through a literary, theoretical text in which it reveals how the literal return of the traumatic past have a fatal effect on the victim; and hopes to suggest “the narrative memory” as a way to deal with trauma from a more humanistic perspective.

Two Different Perspectives of Contemporary Japanese Writers Tracing the Memories of Colonial Taiwan - Tsushima Yuko’s Too Savage and Yoshida Shuichi’s Road

Jo YoungJoon | 2015, 41 | pp.57~84 | number of Cited : 2

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A Study on Jin Tai Quan Zhuan (金臺全傳): A Narration in the Form of a Xylographic Book

Myungsin Kim | 2015, 41 | pp.85~112 | number of Cited : 1

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A Comparative Study on Joy in Russian and Korean

Kim Jungil | 2015, 41 | pp.113~140 | number of Cited : 3

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A Cultural Dimension of Sustainability -Focusing on Cultural Policy and Arts Management in Germany-

Kim, Hwa Im | 2015, 41 | pp.141~161 | number of Cited : 5

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A Comparative Analysis of the “SiMaZhiXi” Seal collected by “GuXiHuiBian” 0024

MOON BYUNGSOON | 2015, 41 | pp.163~175 | number of Cited : 0

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Galician Nature and People as Seen through La hija del mar by Rosalía de Castro

Sunki, Song | 2015, 41 | pp.177~197 | number of Cited : 2

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The Violence of Neoliberalism Represented in the Works of Eduardo Galeano

WANGMOO YOO | 2015, 41 | pp.199~227 | number of Cited : 1

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A Research on Relative Cultivation through Appellations in Chinese

Yu Hyun a | 2015, 41 | pp.229~243 | number of Cited : 3

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A Study on Some Forms that Originated from the Dependent Noun “것” [kət]

Lee, Eunsup | 2015, 41 | pp.245~273 | number of Cited : 5

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A Study on Relevant Aspects of “Nature” and “Elegant Beauty” Appearring in Cho, Chi-Hoon's Poems and Poetics

Lee, Chan | 2015, 41 | pp.275~298 | number of Cited : 1

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Creative Curiosity: Study of Alice Character in Lewis Caroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland

Sungran Cho | 2015, 41 | pp.299~320 | number of Cited : 1

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A Comparative Study of the Feminist View of the World Between Na Hye-Sok and George Sand - Focusing on Conscious Vocation of the Artist -

CHO JI-SOOK | 2015, 41 | pp.321~349 | number of Cited : 4

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The Historical Origin of the Conflict of the Aymara of Peru and Bolivia, Centered on Puno

Cha-kyung Mi | 2015, 41 | pp.351~379 | number of Cited : 1

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In the Andes regions of Latin America continents, groups of diverse native tribes are intensively distributed.Among these tribes, the Aymara compose the most representative group of natives along with the Quechua. Especially, the Aymara who are concentrated on the border areas of Peru and Bolivia centered on Lake Titicaca have pursued common identity forming the same cultural area although they belong to different nations. In the meantime, the Aymara have maintained a sense of fellowship while emphasizing historicity and specialty, which are differentiated with groups of other natives based on a language constituting identity of the tribe. However, recently, focused on Puno State as the center of the border areas of both countries, the tribe’s conflicts come to the surface. After being divided by the artificial boundary line, which was formed in the course of building modern countries after the independence, natives of Latin America started to emphasize differences simultaneously with cultural similarity in the frame of cooperation and competition. Together with the historical contexts, lately, focused on the border areas of Peru and Bolivia, as the same tribe came to be bound by the frameworks of different nations respectively, a new tribal conflict is being developed. Though the Aymara unite emphasizing cultural and historical specialty and recognizing them as one tribe, when they conflict with each other over inner interest, a tendency to form the identity of differentiation and distinction appeared even in the inside of the tribe. Usually, disorder between tribes seems to be originated from intertribal strife, which coexists in one region. In case of the Aymara of Peru and Bolivia, centered on Puno State where both countries maintain the border, an aspect that the fellowship of the tribe, which was established through old history changes into conflict structures by realistic conditions comes out. In understanding this point, this study analyzed the historical origin of the conflict of the Aymara and the deepened cause of the tribal disorder.

Beyond Humanism - The End of Modern Humanity and the New Transformations of Human Being

CHOI Jin Seok | 2015, 41 | pp.381~413 | number of Cited : 16

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This article aims to trace a historical trajectory of “Humanism” as a Modern scientific concept in the light of Michel Foucault’s genealogy. Generally, we believe that Humanism is a natural and eternal idea for mankind, because no one doubts that he or she is not included in the category of a “Human Being.” On the contrary, according to French philosopher Foucault, the Idea of Humanism, or anthropocentrism, appeared only in the Modern Age, from the 16th century downward. Before the Renaissance, human beings did not occupy the most important status in Nature, and only existed as natural beings. As soon as mankind was liberated from the superstitious of fear and religious dogma, the concept of “Human Being” is supplied with new meanings and values. The famous maxim, such as, “Man is the lord of creation” constitutes modern human science as an inviolable category of modernity. However, Foucault tried to illuminate the hidden sides of humanism, and gave us the strict warning on the end of the human beings, which turned out to be an object of Modern knowledge. If there would be no reason to maintain a knowledge system of Modernity, in other words, Modernity as knowledge would lose its validity and we could give up Humanism as a heavy burden. Moreover, it is very clear that we are confronted with the critical moments of radical skepticism on the meaning and value for Humanity. That means that we need to think about the new transformations of Human Beings, which will probably appear in the forms of “Non-Humans,” “Machines (Deleuze & Guattari),” or “Post-Humans” etc. At the present time, we cannot know if it will be positive, or negative for mankind. We should look back at the history of Humanism from a genealogical perspective, which is why we have to investigate the conceptual trajectory of Humanism in this moment.

A Study on Tatyana Tolstaya's Rendezvous with Bird

Haeng Gyu Choi | 2015, 41 | pp.415~442 | number of Cited : 0

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Through the comparison of "Rendezvous with a Bird" with "Araby", there were found to be well-explained psychological causes of the boy’s (Petya) behavior that closely discloses the concrete object of desperation and definitely confirmed the internal causes of heroes (vanity of the boys in "Araby" and "Rendezvous with bird"). Through the comparison of "Rendezvous with a Bird" with "A man in a boat" we also knew that Petya's indefinite fear of death was to some extent a sense of guilt. This study contains a full-scale review of Russian contemporary writer Tatyana Tolstaya's short story "Rendezvous with a Bird", which is one of the her earliest works. As many critics indicate, the works of Tatyana Tolstaya resonate with metaphor. "Rendezvous with a bird" plays an important role in understanding this metaphoric tendency. In order to understand the metaphoric tendency of her works we need our own reading strategy, and so we inquired into the grasp of the main motifs. Analysis of the main motifs can start from the understanding of meanings of the very figurative title 'Rendezvous with a Bird’. To understand the meanings of the title, we first of all analyzed the incidents of actual or figurative meetings with birds in this work, and through this we deduced two main motifs. We confirmed one main motif of 'desperation', which centers on the love of a young boy and woman. We confirmed the other motif as 'death', which developed into the rendezvous of the grandfather with inevitable death. Thus, the 'desperation' and 'death' with which we meet in childhood becomes a subject matter for the writer. To understand the deeper meanings of these main motifs, we compared "Rendezvous with Bird" with the short story "Araby" by James Joyce and with the short story "A man in a boat" by Eyvind Johnson, which very successfully deal with the motifs: 'desperation' and 'death'.

The Analysis of the Distribution and Meaning of the Evenki's Clan Name: Centering on Baj, Kim, and Shama/Sama

Suncheon Eom | 2015, 41 | pp.443~475 | number of Cited : 0

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The Philosophers of Monterey: The Untold Friendship of John Steinbeck, Joseph Campbell & Ed Ricketts Michael Jerome Hanson, Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2010

Lee, Geon-Geun | 2015, 41 | pp.477~484 | number of Cited : 2

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