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The Writings As The Boundary Man, Writer Park Jo-yeol

LeeSeunghyun 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Park Jo-yeol wrote only about 10 dramas, and they are read as works for the division of Korea into Sorth and Nouth. However, all of his dramas can not be read in this way, so this paper is tried to analyze his dramas with issues of the boundary. The boundary is not just a line, it has a kind of a space, the boundary area which is similar with ‘The Third Space’ that Homi Bhabha explained. The boundary area did not have a kind of distinction and the space which people can solve problems of dichotomous thinking. After this manner, dramas of Park Jo-yeol can be read that they express Boundary people who be in boundary area. They meet problems of dichotomous thinking ―the division of Korea in 1960’s-1970’s, a premodern way of thinking, the war, the national violence, and so on―, but they can not be any side because they are just victims of the power who make the boundary. When Park Jo-yeol wrote about Koran politics, he had to try to pass censorship. At that time his dramas’ formal experiment are remarkable, and he insisted the freedom of expression due to censorship. On the other hand, he displayed his anticommunist with documentary theatres because he showed the ideological conflict of the Sorth and Nouth Korea, not the boundary men. Maybe this point is his limitation. In spite of it, his writings as the boundary man is significant, since he is located in the boundary area, a special position, as boundary man unlike any other writer in South Korea.

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