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The Meaning of the ‘Other Space’ and Possibility of a Post-Liberation Period Solidarity as “World Citizen” - with Focus on The New City and the Chorus of the Citizens

Park Eunji 1

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the literary project pursued by the coterie journalSinshiron, focusing on its second poetry anthology The New City and theChorus of Citizens, and reviews its poetic responses to the post-liberationzeitgeist. This newness called for the recognition of the post-liberationspace as a heterotopia. After the shattered hope for an independentcountry dreamt of during the Japanese colonial rule, Sinshiron created aheterotopia, in which imagination and reality were merged, in pursuit of a“new city.”By embracing the New Country Group, the Sinshiron coterie memberscame to cultivate attitudes of solidarity towards colonial nations as worldcitizens. “Indonesia” and “Bae In-cheol” depicted in the poems of PakIn-hwan and Im Ho-kwon, respectively, demonstrate the reality perceivedby the Sinshiron coterie members, who were aware of their “socialresponsibilities” as world citizens inhabiting the heterotopia as a practicalspace geared towards building global solidarity.

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