문학과 증언: 세월호 이후의 한국문학 = Testimony And Literature: Korean Literature After Sinking of Sewol Ferry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Korean literature responded to the Sewol ferry disaster that happened on April 16, 2014, with defining it as Alain Badiou’s ‘event.’ The Sewol ferry disaster was an ‘event’ in terms that it made people doubt about ‘the ground’ such as a state itself and its laws which have been considered as self-evident. The same is true of the field of literature, that it has been suffering for a kind of multiloquent aphasia after the disaster. Since an ‘event’ would happen in a form of unrepresentable condition, it always makes the representability of literature helpless. As in the case of the writings on Holocaust, however, literature cannot help finding its way out under the contradictive moral pressure that it should try to represent the things unrepresentable somehow. So, this paper named it as ‘the literary art of memory’. After the disaster, the writings which were published vigorously and impressed the readers were not major genres, such as poetry or fictions, but reportages and nonfictions. As a result, Korean literature needs to reargue the reportage literature which was discussed actively after 1980s and disappeared from the literary field. This paper calls the nonfictional writings on the disaster ‘the literary art of writing’. In conclusion, literature in front of unrepresentable events should play double, that is: ‘the literary art of memory’ and ‘the literary art of writing’. This paper examines the possibility of performing this double tasks of literature and tries to reestablish the relationship between major literary genres and nonfiction genres, such as reportages, interviews and dictation.

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