5·18소설의 애도 양상 연구 : 사건의 제도화와 문학적 애도를 중심으로 = A Study on the Aspects of Mourning in 5?18 Novels : Focusing on the Institutionalization of the Event and Literary Mourning

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A Study on the Aspects of Mourning in 5․18 Novels - Focusing on the Institutionalization of the Event and Literary Mourning -
Kim Hye-jinAdvisor : Prof. Cha Seung-ki, Ph. D. Dept. of Korean Language & LiteratureGraduate School of Chosun University
This study analyzes the 5·18 novels published after the institutionalization of the May 18th event from the perspective of "unending mourning." Unlike previous studies that focused on the irreproducibility of the 5·18 novels from the standpoint of testimony, this research examined the achievements and limitations of what has been represented and confirmed that this inevitably leads to a continuous process of unending mourning.To do this, the study reviewed the process through which the counter-discursive characteristics of the 5·18 discourse were formed in conjunction with mourning, highlighting how the fixation on the absolute experiences of ‘death’ and ‘truth’ caused mourning to intertwine with political struggle.As the May 18th event became a public issue, ‘death’ and ‘truth’ lost their absolute status and became subjects that needed to be empirically proven. In the judicial and institutional processes of proving the May 18th event, a hierarchy of discourse and exclusion was formed. The pursuit of ‘truth’ about the May 18th event against the ‘concealment’ by the authoritarian regime was distorted in the public discourse into a confrontation between ‘victim compensation’ and ‘fact-finding.’ Amid political calculations and compromises, the forgiveness and mourning for the perpetrators were appropriated and distorted by national discourse.With the official recognition of the event as a symbol of ‘democracy,’ a paradoxical anxiety arose about the potential for forgetting and fossilization brought about by the state's commemoration of May 18th. At the point where the official forgiveness and mourning for May 18th ended, the literary mourning in the 5·18 novels began, showing a different aspect from the collective mourning struggle and institutional process fixed on ‘death’ and ‘truth.’In a sense, these attempts were a response to mourning that had been prematurely concluded before true mourning could take place. The 5·18 novels continued as an attempt to focus on the history of the "other" excluded or overlooked in the politicalization of mourning in the public sphere and the judicial issues of the May 18th event, as well as the ongoing trauma. These novels called forth individual memories of suffering.Specifically, the study explored attempts to reframe the narrative of mourning in an unending form by directly adopting the format of a ‘gut’ ritual, to identify the sensations of unresolved remnants, and to recall isolated memories and continuing wounds that arose from the process of individual suffering being subsumed by the collective voice. It also examined the creation of a ‘between-space’ where memories of pain overlap. Additionally, it analyzed the characteristics of visual language that overlap the summoned memories or reveal the impossibility of testimony and how the memory and experience of 5·18 are represented by generations without direct experience of it.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론 1
• 1. 연구 목적 1
• 2. 선행 연구 검토 6
• 3. 연구 대상 및 연구 방법 13
• Ⅱ. 규명되어야 할 5·18의 ‘진실’과 애도의 정치 18
• 1. 은폐/진실의 대립구도와 애도의 정치 18
• 2. 제도적 과거청산과 규범화된 5·18 26
• 3. 과거청산 담론의 한계와 종결불가능한 애도 33
• 4. 애도의 정치와 5·18문학담론 39
• Ⅲ. 제도화 너머의 트라우마와 문학적 애도 49
• 1. 화해불가능한 잔여의 인식 49
• 2. 기억의 횡령에 맞서는 기억들 63
• 3. 재현(불)가능성을 넘어 축적되는 감정 80
• 4. 감염자 또는 상속자 되기 100
• Ⅳ. 결론 115
• 참고문헌 119