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A Study on the Baekseok’s Literature

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2006, (59), pp.365-390
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

A poet named Baekseok wanted to be a pure ‘deer’. But he was a misfortunate poet because darkness of disintegrative times did not allow it. He was a soul that was pure rather than resistant. To sum up what I have discussed so far, it is as follows. The first, the hometown which is symbolized as ‘the old grandmother’ reminds us of ‘traces of a matrilineal society’, and this is caused by the absent father who was driven to Manchuria by the great father called the Japanese Empire. On the other hand, danger of the great father is not revealed in front of literature because it is concealed in unconsciousness. The second, the symbolism of a collection of poems ‘deer’ covers the desire of return in paradise, and a white donkey, a Dahurian buckthorn, a white birch, Natasha, etc. come under image of deformation. The literature of smelling and tastes which appeared through the local motive of taste and food. is not the intention of hidden resistance against Japanese imperialism, but the result of the original image restoring the passage of the lost paradise. Therefore, Baekseok is a poet more pure than resistant. Accordingly, his wandering is nostalgia toward the lost paradise and the longing searching for smelling and tastes. ‘Jaya’ whom Baekseok had met in the course of wandering was 'woman of a true relief. She appeared as transformed image of Natasha, a white donkey, etc., which is a mediator joining the sacred world. The fifth, the desire of womb return lurked in washing hands, that is, the depths of mysophobia. The sixth, Manchuria, children’s literature and cooperation farm symbolize the castrated space, which has the ambivalence of threat from castration of the poet who is wandering between ideology and purity.

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