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Post-colonial study of Taebaek Mountains

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2011, (76), pp.317-350
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Young Eui Chon 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

If a society is put under the control of the ruing class and elite group of society, A society is re-composited society on a dependent position and break down dependence quality with pull up the people's voice under the huge discuss. when it consider from the point of view Taebaek Mountains is narrative that show post-colonial of the people. Taebaek Mountains is narrative that is attack a korean society problem at the people's a point of view. The korean society problem is immanent from the feudal age. The trouble with landowners and tenant farmers about land possessions is a subject of possession and division, and trouble of the relationship of classes. The trouble is expressed several places in narrative. Yeom Sang Jin who has a leftist ideology thoroughly, Hah Dae Chi and a liberation army consist social system. that is after a nation confiscate a person's land, a nation divide land to the people equally for the people and release of classes. The other side Jeong hyeon Dong and the right wing landowners who are very close Japanese imperialism consist a system that is a nation and the right wing landowners deal in land for keep there vested interests of economy from the feudal age and a government of the U.S. Army comply with their consist. From this point of view the trouble with landowners and tenant farmers is not personal feeling. It is immanent trouble about land possession from the root. After liberation it was not cleanse of remaining of colonial, korean government officials who are very close Japanese imperialism re-appointment and they keep their property under the government oh the U.S. Army. After liberation korea have a complex stratum trouble that are land possession, cleanse of remaining of colonial, a confrontation between socialism and democracy ideology. The post-colonial quality show aspect realization of characters by side of the text. but it show side of the strategic narrative structures. Characters are the people, conscientious intellectuals, cooperators in colonial. The people want be independence people use defensive violence, conscientious intellectuals want to be the real mail body use change of consciousness who throw a chance themselves as colonizer, expecially post colonial quality as colonial cooperators is cooperation by a existence strategy. that is not simply resistance and logical cooperation of the Japanese empire. They achieve reappearance themselves to use dependence and cooperation, and overcome dependence quality, they get similar to the main body. these points have post-colonial quality. and the other side Taebaek Mountains show the people quality of characters to use enlightenment structure to use master and disciple relationship, methods of character forms to use jeollado's dialect and folk language. and demonstrate that the people quality of characters are post-colonial quality. this points have a significance. their positiveness prove competitional attitude of the people about irrationality, and their positive acts overcome Japanese empire and American new colonial. It is desire of the people who want recover loss of identity by colonialism. As a result Taebaek Mountains have meaning of post-colonial quality through solve the problem that is problem of race and people's release.

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