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Diaspora Aspects Reproduced in Hwang Sun-won’s Novels -Focusing on Short Stories from the Late 1940s to the 1960s

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2024, (128), pp.173-195
  • DOI : 10.21793/koreall.2024.128.173
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : September 30, 2024
  • Accepted : November 19, 2024
  • Published : November 30, 2024

Lee Min Jung 1

1한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The era of armed conflict. Humanism driven by diaspora. This can be called the virtue of diaspora. One of the writers who recreated diaspora in language is Hwang Sun-won. Hwang Sun-won is a writer who experienced the Japanese colonial period, the Korean War, and the era of globalization. Hwang Sun-won is a writer who experienced diaspora in reality and struggled for decolonization. He also had a desire to return home. Therefore, the time and space in his works are a mixture of decolonization and diaspora. Among Hwang Sun-won’s short stories, the works that clearly reveal topophilia and diaspora are “The Dog of Mokneomi Village” (March 1948), “Rather My Neck” (August 1967), “Crane” (May 1953), “Life” (May 1952), and “Acrobat” (January 1952). In a time and space where colonial discourses coexist, a destructive diaspora causes us to experience the uprooting of our identity, and the separation and longing for home in migration drive topophilia as the other. Many researchers have analyzed Hwang Sun-won’s novels as humanistic novels. It is natural that Hwang Sun-won’s works, which experienced migration, separation, and longing for home, namely destructive diaspora, raise the question of “how should humans live to be human?” Just as Levinas, a Jew, argued for “ethics of the other” while experiencing the Holocaust, Hwang Sun-won also had no choice but to reflect on “humanity, human dignity” as he formed his identity as a diaspora. Ultimately, he appeals that humanism, which generously accepts others, should be strengthened by transforming the hybridization of outsiders into fusion in the place of migration. In this paper, I intend to examine how humanism reproduces the world created by migration in Hwang Sun-won’s works by linking it with diaspora and topophilia. The analysis of diaspora and topophilia through Hwang Sun-won's works is valuable in that it makes us look back on why we must be rooted in a place and live as human beings, while maintaining human morality. In an era of unstable identity, with a wavering identity. What can we do to live an authentic life? There is a need to deeply contemplate this.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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