디아스포라 증언의 서사- 이양지 소설에 나타난 트라우마를 중심으로- (A narrative of Diaspora testimony - Centered around trauma in novels of Lee Yang Ja -)

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· 발행기관 : 한국문학이론과비평학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국문학이론과 비평 / 15권 / 2호 / 221 ~ 243페이지
· 저자명 : 엄미옥

초록

The purpose of this study is to investigate the trauma depicted in Lee Yang Ja's novels and by doing so, to show how the historical experience of the subjects of Diaspora is testified. The female character in her novel is the 2nd generation Korean-Japanese and suffers from traumatic neurosis and extreme ego splitting. Between Korea and Japan, her identity is lost, her consciousness is splitted and her feelings are conflicted, which leads to excessive smoking and drinking, sexual obsession with a married man and a hallucination of getting killed by a Japanese.
The trauma does not just appear in the form of mental illness but also appears in the form of linguistic impediment of Korean and Japanese. The characters in her novel decided to come and study in Korea in order to learn Korean and regain their identities, but Japanese was their mother tongue and Korean was just a foreign language for them so they adhered to Japanese language instead of trying to learn Korean. The character, struggling between the 2 languages, voiced the violence of linguistic nationalism.
The fact that Lee Yang Ja's novel is autobiographical in nature proves that her writing has been a process of healing her own trauma as a Korean Japanese. The point she reached after overcoming the trauma through her writing was 'to see as it is,' which means accepting herself, torn between Korea and Japan, as she was. To accept as she was means to get over the trauma of the past and an establishment of a new identity through reconciliation with herself. And the trauma she suffered was not just her personal trauma, but a historical experience and furthermore, the trauma of Korean Diaspora that could be the trauma of humanity and represent the instability of the national state. Narrations of such trauma, like counter-transferences of Gayko in <Woman diver> and the sister in <Merrymaking>, serve as an impetus for others to have ethical reflection on existence and identity.

영어초록

The purpose of this study is to investigate the trauma depicted in Lee Yang Ja's novels and by doing so, to show how the historical experience of the subjects of Diaspora is testified. The female character in her novel is the 2nd generation Korean-Japanese and suffers from traumatic neurosis and extreme ego splitting. Between Korea and Japan, her identity is lost, her consciousness is splitted and her feelings are conflicted, which leads to excessive smoking and drinking, sexual obsession with a married man and a hallucination of getting killed by a Japanese.
The trauma does not just appear in the form of mental illness but also appears in the form of linguistic impediment of Korean and Japanese. The characters in her novel decided to come and study in Korea in order to learn Korean and regain their identities, but Japanese was their mother tongue and Korean was just a foreign language for them so they adhered to Japanese language instead of trying to learn Korean. The character, struggling between the 2 languages, voiced the violence of linguistic nationalism.
The fact that Lee Yang Ja's novel is autobiographical in nature proves that her writing has been a process of healing her own trauma as a Korean Japanese. The point she reached after overcoming the trauma through her writing was 'to see as it is,' which means accepting herself, torn between Korea and Japan, as she was. To accept as she was means to get over the trauma of the past and an establishment of a new identity through reconciliation with herself. And the trauma she suffered was not just her personal trauma, but a historical experience and furthermore, the trauma of Korean Diaspora that could be the trauma of humanity and represent the instability of the national state. Narrations of such trauma, like counter-transferences of Gayko in <Woman diver> and the sister in <Merrymaking>, serve as an impetus for others to have ethical reflection on existence and identity.

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