이선관 시의 장애 인식과 수평적 존재론

Abstract

This article examines the way in which physical disability is represented in the works of Masan poet Lee Seon-Kwan, who suffered a lifelong disability due to cerebral palsy. Through his poetry writing, he overcame the sense of inferiority arising from physical limitations and went out to form a new identity. In recent years, the study of disability has emerged as a subject of active discussion and is presenting a diversified perspective to understand disability through various discourses. Based on the perspective of disability studies, this article views disability as a concept artificially constructed as a marked body image of abnormality in contrast to normality among various social and cultural phenomena. Lee Seon-Kwan's poetic utterances rejected attempts to otherize disability, and defined his identity as a poet, parent, practical activist of a society, and equal citizen. Lee Seon-Kwan's early poems are filled with feelings of alienation and inferiority resulting from his physical disability, which he experiences in Chang-dong, Masan. Literature was his only escape from alienation and inferiority. Series poetry “Mother” is a work that is in the process of transitioning from his early works, which were filled with frustration and loneliness, to his mid-term works that establish his identity as an equal citizen and affirmation of himself. Series poetry “Mother” is an autobiographical poem in which he faithfully looks back on his entire life. Confessional poetry writing makes it possible for the poet to reflect on the meaning of life and furthermore, to rediscover the human ontology. The transformation from the vertical ontology of anthropocentrism to a horizontal ontology that views all human beings as equals and understands all living things equally. The horizontal ontology functions as a clue in the later ecological poetry that pointed out the problems of ecology and climate. As we can see, Lee Seon-Kwan's literature begins with the problem of personal life of disability, overcomes it, acquires status as an equal member of society, and expands to the whole society of ecological destruction and environmental pollution.