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A Study on Politics of White Dove(白鷗) of Yeom, Sang Seop

Kim Byeong Goo 1

1숙명여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This essay aims to examine the characteristics of politics the way howYeom Sang Seop's narrative desire to revive national identity in WhiteDove is revealed in the dialectic relation between a cognitive structure anda emotive structure of text. First, White Dove reveals the criminality of theso-called ‘Amazing Plan’, which is misbehaved by socialist organization,from Petit intellectuals, Park Young Sik’ poin of view at the level ofcognitive structure. Yeom Sang Seop openly criticize the socialist ideologyby analogy the behavior of the socialist organization a crime gang. Second,White Dove implies a message that the abandonment of the socialistideology and dialogical relationshipat the level of emotive structure. Thecrime narrative in White Dove removes the historical and social meaningto borrow a detective form with the criminal acts of socialist organization,and brings the interest of the reader at the same time lay the ideologicaleffect that need to isolate the socialist organization. In this respect, thecrime narrative in White Dove has a political implications that Yeom SangSeop’s narrative desire to revive national identity could pose an irony thatunintentionally can be associated with the desire of the colonial empire.

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