On the meaning of the slaves’ shapes in Yadam of the Joseon Dynasty

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· 발행기관 : 호남대학교 인문사회과학연구소
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This paper examined the shapes of slaves in Yadam of the Joseon Dynasty, confirms the differences in the shapes of slaves in the flow of time, and considers the meaning of the literary imagery dealing with slaves and its variation. The slaves in Yadam are portrayed as beings who have internalized the value of the ideology of ‘loyalty’, a neo-Confucian ideology, in their relationship with their master. Also In Yadam of the Joseon Dynasty, stories about runaway slaves are also handed down. The slaves found in the Yadam collection of the Joseon Dynasty are depicted as human types deeply internalized in their loyalty to their master, and even if they were runaway slaves, they appear as trying to fulfill their human duty without forgetting the grace they had for their master in the past. At the same time, they make the choice to cheat on their master and leave for a new life.
Looking at Yadam of the Joseon Dynasty in consideration of the period, there is a difference in the type of story found in each Yadam collection. Slaves, who appear very briefly in the early Joseon Dynasty and leave a deep impression of their presence through a word of speech, can be said to be talkers in place of noblemen, and speech as ‘slaves’ seems to be a rhetorical device. In ‘Eou Yadam’, an early Yadam collection, we can see the inseparable relationship between noblemen and slaves, who depended on slaves for everything in their daily lives, through loyal slaves who risked or threw their lives only for the master without a single glance and in the later Yadam collections ‘Gyeseo Yadam’ and ‘Cheonggu Yadam’, slaves are portrayed as individuals separated from the yangban through their pursuit of individual freedom and rebellion against their social status. In addition, There are also differences in the imagery of male and female slaves in Yadam, and the method of portraying each individual’s extraordinaryness is different. This seems to reflect the real situation where the value of female slaves as property is higher.

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