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Literature for Healing Risk Society and Community Trauma: Focusing on Korean literature after the Sewol ferry incident

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2020, (48), pp.217-255
  • DOI : 10.21050/CSE.2020.48.08
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 15, 2020
  • Accepted : December 18, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Lee Young Ho 1

1루터대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Ulrich Baek pointed out that the rapid industrialization of Korean society has led to a dangerous society that is living with complex risks. Furthermore, he ar- gued that Korea should now abandon its growth-oriented rush model and change to a more sustainable and eco-friendly development model. Ulrich Beck argues that literature reproduces time and space through narrative, thus, the nar- rative reproduced the aims at healing community. After the Sewol ferry incident, writers engaged in writing as testimony. It created a space for discourse and memory in the trauma situation caused by the Sewol ferry incident. This was a tradition of Korean literature. The way the novel's representation of the Sewol ferry incident was very similar to the symptoms and healing process of social trauma. Therefore, after the Sewol ferry incident, Korean literature refused to commemorate the simple Sewol ferry incident. Korean literature has played a role in bringing memory to life and bringing each victim to life. For those of us who have not yet moved into the future after that incident, literature guides us on how to endure pain by building a community of loss. These efforts of Korean lit- erature became the starting point for the formation of a “compassionate community” that could restore broken social relationships.

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