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The Subject’s Recognition of Otherness in Lee Tae-joon’s Short Stories and its Limitation: Focusing on “Moonlit night”, “Son Geo-Boo”, “Rainy Season”, “Pae Gang Rang” and “Sunset”

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2020, 77(3), pp.289-328
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.77.3.202008.289
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 10, 2020
  • Accepted : February 12, 2020
  • Published : August 31, 2020

JINGYU KIM 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study, which targets Lee Tae-joon’s short stories, considers the need for the subject’s recognition of otherness in the appreciation of literary works by analyzing the way the narrator violently identifies other characters. In “Moonlit night” and “Son Geo-Boo”, the narrator ‘I’ extracts ‘the purity of Joseon’ from the frustrations and failures of Hwang Soo-gun and Son Geo-Boo, and savor their ‘anti-modernity.’ However, their modern desires crack ‘I’s’ narrative of trying to stuff them in a de-historicized space-time. “Pae Gang Rang” is set in a war system that makes it difficult to meditate on the purity of Joseon. ‘Hyun’ only sees the remains of Pyongyang, not the modernized aspect of Pyeongyang, which was carried out under the slogan of ‘great Pyongyang.’ Similarly, instead of seeing Yeongwol’s real life, Hyun tries to make her a ‘portrait of the uniqueness of Joseon culture.’ The miscommunicated dialogue between Hyun and Yeongwol shows that ‘Hyun’ is violently identifying the other in the crisis of the value system he faces. In “Sunset”, written in 1942, even the least bit of reality that existed in previous works disappears, and the relationship between Maeheon and Taok is strictly in line with Maeheon’s desire. It can be read as a failure of the subject's perception of otherness that the narrator only places the other in his binomial value system and does not reach new self-awareness in the tension with them. In the perspective of literature education, taking a step away from the value system that is taken for granted in the work and recognizing the unfamiliarity of the other will contribute to the laying down of the foundation for learners to communicate with others, away from their egocentric attitudes.

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