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A study on a Minjung-imagination in 1980's Korean Novels - Focused on "Taebaek Mountains" written by Jo Jung-Rae

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2010, (73), pp.289-310
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Lim Hwan Mo 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Korea modernization made a road to achieve democratic modernity with to be unify an ideal modernity of 4·19 and a technological modernity of 5·16 that the Gwangju People`s Struggle in 1980 served as a momentum. Gwanju Struggle had triggered an important transformation ‘Let's well live on' of a technological modernization to ‘Let's well live on together’ of mutual existence modernization. "Taebaek Mountains"(1983～1989) written by Jo Jung-Rae during 1983～1989 partially displayed and made a plan such achievement. "Taebaek Mountains" made a diagnosis where is the source of structural contradiction in 1980's and presented a direction of mutual existence with popular imagination. The author cloud have created a problem characters of five party as to use that a constituent method goes over again with construction of an arabesque desire in relation with tension of likeness to go with difference, that episodical constituent principles make most of reality and actuality through to maximize originality of a part and that narrative strategy like the relationship between teacher and pupil and enlightenment structure is filled with aspirations of democratization at that time. We mentioned an aesthetics achievement this work that practically recomposed stubbornness of property keeping and extreme sadness of existence of conservation-rightist party and Minjung party. Furthermore he could present prospect about pluralist society as to show a confident system that innovation-leftist party, reform-progress party, conservation-consciences party compared, judged and selected by each other view points. The writer emphasized actualization of democratic modernity of 'Let's well live on together' as to set up motivational forces of historical progress with people's latent power and healthy vitality. His point of view like this caused the propriety of benefiting the enemy but "Taebaek Mountains". The real value and efficiency of "Taebaek Mountains" is to cast serious doubts on that asked human rights and national identity in our society through ideal presentation of purity and morality of socialist, and then, arranges and invigorates field of a debate that attempt an experiment on establishment of a new value system. In the end, a problem awaiting to be solved for us is to exchange opinions for well balance. That is our shore as reader.

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