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A Study of Childhood Space in the Autobiographical Fiction of Park Wan-suh and Chi Zijian ― Focusing on Who Ate Up All the Shinga? and Fairy Tale of the North Pole Village

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2026, (81), pp.337~368
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2026..81.013
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : July 10, 2026
  • Accepted : August 20, 2026
  • Published : August 31, 2026

Shi, Jiawei 1

1경희대학교 국어국문학과

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ABSTRACT

This study compares Park Wan-suh’s Who Ate Up All the Shinga? (1992) and Chi Zijian’s Fairy Tale of the North Pole Village (1986), focusing on how childhood space is represented and narratively constructed in their autobiographical fiction. In such works, childhood space is not merely a background, but a key medium for organizing memory and emotion. Park’s childhood space, shaped by the movement from Parkjeokgol to Hyeonjeo-dong in Seoul, is divided between hometown and city and becomes a memory space marked by rupture and loss. By contrast, Chi’s childhood space appears as a relatively complete memory space within the semi-closed world of North Pole Village. These differences are closely related to their narrative methods: Park employs dissonant self-narration, a linear structure, and restrained, reality-oriented language, while Chi uses consonant self-narration, a circular structure, poetic language, and personification. This study argues that childhood space in autobiographical fiction is constructed through narrative choices and functions as a central medium through which childhood memory, emotion, and historical experience are reorganized.

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