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The Memory of Violence and the Narrative Repersentation in Navels of Kim Yu-jeong

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2018, 75(1), pp.269-296
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.75.1.201802.269
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 10, 2018
  • Accepted : January 31, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

QIAN CHUNHUA 1

1원광대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Violence is one of the important motifs that repetitively appear in Kim Yu-jeong’s literature. Violence is repetitively used in diversified forms, and insensitivity to violence may make readers stunned. This is quite opposite to the writer of wit and humor. However, reviewing his life carefully has revealed that family violence was traumatic to him. In practice, trauma caused by violence had serious aftereffects, including depression and social phobia. Starting with such awareness, this study reviewed Kim Yu-jeong’s literature on the basis of the traumatic characteristics. The aspects of violence prevalent in his literature were found to be the transformed representations of his trauma, and his literature was a course to reveal his traumatic traces unconsciously through texts. During this course, he was able to be cured by facing his ego deep inside him; in this sense, his writing was a self-curing process as well as the greatest prop that supports his last days. Diverse in-depth approaches were made to violence in terms of offenders, victims, and observers, as a form of conversation with the ego.

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