한국문학과 로컬리즘 고향의 발견과 서울,지방의 (탈)구축 = The Discovery of a Hometown and the (De)Construction of Seoul,the Local

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines how the ``hometown``(discourse) treated in the period of Modernization intervenes in the spatial status of Seoul/the provinces, analyzing the hometown discourse in Korean literature in the 1960s and 70s. It is to have a rethink the fixed dichotomous boundary of Seoul/the local, center/periphery today. In a project of the modern space, the hometown was granted a geopolitical position by the abstracted relational frame rather than the materiality of space. The dichotomy of Seoul/the provinces hardened in the process. But in the texts of Kim Seungok and Lee Cheongjun in the 1960s and 70s, the ambivalent attitude of the subjects escaping from a hometown to experiencing Seoul and the consequential contradictory recognition of a hometown demonstrate that the then center/periphery wasn`t fixed. The subjects experiencing the stratified order of the provinces-Seoul-state-world in the repetitive experiences of escaping from-returning to their hometown, the recognition of subject was crystallized stratifiedly and the ambivalent recognition of the world led to the split of subject. This subject split offered the framework which could explain the relativization of the spatial hierarchy. The framework is also the point that the hometown revealed in the ambivalent recognition of envy and jealousy wasn`t reduced to the spatial order of the modern dichotomy. The very this point can provide a reflective thinking about the locality of center/periphery today.