황병승 시에 나타난 성담론 연구

Abstract

This study focused on the sexual utterances in Hwang Byeong-seung's poetry and attempted to examine how they are discussed and which social and cultural meaning they have. For that purpose, the research looked at confession and perversity as categories. Many of the sexual utterances in Hwang Byeong-seung's poetry show perverse tendencies, but they are realized through artistic figuration. Confessional speech can be seen as the first step for a discourse aimed at sexual liberation. It is related to the affect of shame. This is not perceived accurately and clearly like the feeling of shame, but acts unconsciously in the direction of understanding and being understood in the relationships between social bodies. Additionally, perverse speeches reveal a strong subversiveness against dominant discourse. Hwang Byeong-seung's poetic text, which has a strong character as a cultural code reflecting biological events, shows various sexual events and simultaneously breaks stereotypes by generating the most intense affects. Since the subject of the poem is not the poet himself, poet Hwang Byeong-seung devised many characters for creating an unfamiliar affects of encountering differences and heterogeneities. Sexual speech in Hwang Byeong-seung's poetry is not clearly divided into the categories of confession and perversion. They are connected or overlapped with each other and also influencing each other. The formation of sexual discourse in his poetry is due to the inherent power of queer affect. The text itself exists as a queer affect, and through delay and accumulation, it evokes an affect that crosses positivity or negativity in the reader's perception. This makes readers re-reckon about the boundary between normal and abnormal. In other words, the sexual utterances that seemed pathological in the text reveal queer affect, which is abstract, free, and unconscious feeling of the body, forming a micro-discourse of transcending boundaries.