Aspects on trauma and popular culture in “An Embrace in the Mature Night” written by Ki Won Seo Kim, Won-hee Based on “An Embrace in the Mature Night” written by Ki Won Seo, this study clarifies the will to overcome postwar trauma by analyzing aspects of popular culture through war trauma and body metaphor approach. This fiction clearly demonstrates possibility to overcome war trauma by reenacting not only traumatic bruises and traces of the war but also the images of lives and culture in Korea after war and carnivalesque world. First, it reenacts the sense of freedom that resists to reality through the desertion trauma. Represented by desertion, the resistance of “self” to reality expands anti-war sentiment since witnessing concrete actuality of war. Second, the sense of life faces instinct through survival trauma. Reflected by survive, purification of lost humanity is met with the sense of life pivot on instinct. Third and last, the sense of salvationfor human revival is reemerged through growth trauma. The sense of salvation which is reenacted by growth trauma expands to a sense of salvation for pure love. This study intends to suggest clue for humanistic value that enables us to reflect our current status as adivided country through illuminating how the trauma discloses the sense of instinct and can be overcome in the perspective of popular culture in the fiction.
한국언어문학교육학회 [The Institute of Education Korean Language and Literature]
설립연도
1993
분야
인문학>한국어와문학
소개
한국언어문학교육학회는 국어국문학과 국어교육 분야의 연구에 힘써 해당 분야의 학문적 발전과 민족문화 창달에 이바지함을 목적으로 한다. 또한 국어국문학 및 국어교육 분야에 대한 학술 연구 발표회를 개최하고 학회지를 발간하는 등 여러 학술적 사업을 개최하는 것을 그 주된 사업으로 하고 있다.
간행물
간행물명
한어문교육 [The Education of Korean Language and Literature]