제국의 바다, 식민지 육지; 공간 의식으로 본 『광장』 = Sea of Empire; Land of Colony: Research on Spatiality in The Square

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kevin O`Rourke, the English translator of The Square, expresses his surprise to the critical acclaim from the Korean literary circle since the 1960s toward The Square. He points out that “The hero of the big ‘60`s hit “The Square” (Kwangjang)- at least to a Western sensibility- is an awful guy who uses women north and south for his own purposes, but he`s an ideal figure in 1960`s Korean literature, a type of the suffering intellectual!” (182). Like his understanding, if we read The Square out of Korean historical contexts, the color of Myungjun as a womanizer will be uncovered. Myungjun acquires his subjectivity by his death in the sea when he encounters a young seagull symbolizing his unborn, but murdered, daughter during the Korean War. Seagulls representing all female characters subsuming his daughter in The Square enlighten male intellectual`s obsession with the hegemonic power against nature and female subjects. The circulating structure of violence from the conquer of empire to colonial male subject to colonial female subject leads all characters related to Myungjun to death; however, Myungjun keeps showing his desire on hegemonic power even in the moment of his death. The author thematizes the true meaning of love by appearing ‘female’ seagulls who remind the colonial male subject of his distorted desire.

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