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Recognition of Northern Area as a Method and Recognition of East Sea Rim Region

Lee Sun-Hee 1

1경희대학교

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The ultimate purpose of this study is to seek method of formation regionality in the East Sea Rim regional studies. Yoshimi Takeuchi has proposed such a critical concept "Asia as a method of thinking" as criticizing western-centered idea of modern times by asking the question of ‘what means modern times for Asia.' This study adopts the Takeuchi's critical perspective in East Sea Rim regional studies. Especially, this study tries to speculate the Takeuchi's critical perspective in detail with the northern area which implies frontier and alternation. The regionalism could be discovered in the East Sea Rim region which is conflicting area with each states' strong and firm statism and nationalism, also with inflexibility characterized as changeable dynamics. This argument is far from understanding the East Sea Rim region as the institutionalized and sectionalized geographical category but close to recognizing it as a horizon of thinking. Therefore, the proposed method in this study, so called "northern area recognition as a method" can be regarded as an introduction of the East Sea Rim region as a horizon of thinking and the practice through the discussion in detail. The main topic of this specific analysis deals with the Korean poetries of modern times, which presented the meaning of northern area. From here, it proceeds to look into the area in the context of the cross-border recognitions which have not been focused in the field of regional studies. Related to lack of previous studies focusing on the northern area of East Sea Rim, this study suggests that there are poetries dealing with northern area in modern times recognizing the boundary of people and nation critically, showing democratic conscience solidarity among the many immigrants who have such emotions as the stateless person in further. That kind of emotions and thinking help us to overcome the imaginary boundary imposed by the western-cemtered modern times poetries when we begin to reread these poetries with the other point of view.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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