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Postcolonial, War, Oedipus Republic of Korea - Based on Choi In-ho’s early short stories -

Huh, Kwan moo 1 JaeSeok Ko 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

The study is aimed at focusing on Choi In-ho’s early short storiesabout how the concepts of anti-Communism, pro-American capitalism andChristianity worked as the mechanical principles of Western Oedipusstructures to create distorted self-portraits in our society. Pro-U.S.,anti-Communist codes and Christian ceremonies made the nostalgia forthe imaginary father and the idea of obeying such a father even strongerin our consciousness(or Unconscious). And it has made a woman's roleinsignificant or pushed her into the private realm of motherhood and soon. It also led to a tendency to focus more on the close relationshipbetween father and son. In the end, it is described as a desire for a goodfather, but comes back as a father with absolute power. Choi In-ho’searly short stories hide our ongoing history of completing our father’smyths and pro-American, pro-Japanese and Christian-oriented Oedipusnation based on familyism. Therefore we must grasp his novel from thecontinuity of the period from liberation to the present. And within it, wemust seek to escape the Oedipus structure, which features absoluteity andantagonism.

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