포로수용소 소설에 나타나는 ‘포로체험’의 기억 양상 (The Aspect of Memory Revealed in the Novels from Prison Camps)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 현대문학이론학회
· 수록지 정보 : 현대문학이론연구 / 48호 / 155 ~ 183페이지
· 저자명 : 차민기

초록

한국전쟁기의 포로수용소는, 1차적으로 수용소 내에서 이념을 달리한 포로들 간의 생존 투쟁 현장이었고, 다음으로는 남북한 당국의 정치적 정당성 강화를 위한 표본지였다.
아울러 냉전시대에 ‘미-소’ 양국으로 대립된 이념 갈등의 축소판으로 이해할 수도 있다.
이에 한국전쟁문학이 그동안 외면해 온 포로수용소 소설들을 대상으로 하여 포로수용소 서사가 어떻게 한국전쟁을 재현해 내고 있는지를 살피고자 하였다.
이를 위해 본고에서는 최근 활발한 담론을 마련해가고 있는 ‘기억사회학’의 방법론을 활용했다.
이를 바탕으로 포로들의 개인기억과 집합기억의 근원지로서 포로수용소가 지닌 의미를 살피고자 하였다. 그리고 국가 주도의 전쟁기록과 개인의 전쟁기억 간에 발생하는 서로 다른 기억 양상을 살펴 그 이면에 작용하는 강제적 힘을 밝혀보고자 하였다.

영어초록

Korean war literatures in the 1950s and 1960s had their focus mainly on the miserable situation resulting from the war or on the problem of humanity loss in it.
Also there used to be quite a few works which did not meet the standard of aesthetic value because they were excessively leaning toward the ideology. This was because the political ideology of 'anti-Communism' restricted the authors' imagination.
The compulsion toward the ideology can be found in the 'Prison camp' novels which are addressed here. On the ground of this, it is true that they do not show the aesthetic achievement that novels must retain.
Literature, however, does not have its value only in the aesthetic aspect.
Given that the recording aspect of memorizing the reality and reproducing it also is the main function of literature, the status that prison camp novels has in the history of literature is significant.
'Prisoners of War' come into existence from the loss or combat strength or from the imbalance of force.
They are those who can witness and experience the fierce battlefield. Thus, their experience as POWs can be extended as the historical experience of the Korean war. In addition, it can be stored as the memory with live experiences, which state-centered records have distorted and omitted against certain facts, and then handed down to the next generations.
The memory research based on the prison camp novels here is to observe the memorizing method and its transmission of the war experience.
Through this, we can figure out how the memory of war came to be distorted on the political basis of 'anti-Communism'

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