정채봉 초기 동화에 나타난 소외의식과 서술 전략

Abstract

This paper is about the awareness of alienation expressed by characters in early fairy tales of Jeong Chae-bong. When fairy tales of Jeong Chae-bong are thoroughly examined, it can never be simply determined to be ‘happy’ or ‘warm-hearted’. Nevertheless, the dominating impression on his fairy tales is mostly ‘beautiful’, ‘happy’ or ‘just like a fairy tale.’ Thus, this paper starts from the critical mind that the impression on his fairy tales was not sufficiently discussed in existing researches. To this end, this paper investigated the awareness of alienation observed from the characters with the focus on his early fairy tales and deliberated the narration strategy for overcoming such awareness of alienation. Four fairy tales of Jeong Chae-bong were selected for analysis, ‘Flower Bouquet(1973)’, ‘Rainbow(1974)’, ‘Paper Plane(1978)’ and ‘Merry Christmas(1979)’. As the methodology, the historic development process of alienation theory was examined and the personal history of the author was briefly summarized in the aspect of the theory on the author. Moreover, the kinds of alienation observed on characters were analyzed and the narration strategy to overcome alienation was identified. The characters in early fairy tales of Jeong Chae-bong are in the situation which they can’t identify their own existence by themselves because they have mainly physical disabilities or economic difficulty. Such awareness seems to be inseparable from unhappy growth process of the author himself. Major characters in his fairy tales include ‘Hwani who can’t talk, hear and see’, ‘Wungi whose mother is mad,’ ‘a father who is cleaner and so can’t afford to buy even a Christmas gift for his daughter’, and ‘Hansu watching his mother who had to survive by taking household items floating down due to flood.’ All of them have more than on insufficiency or live below the ordinary life. Their types of alienation are classified into ‘physical disability’, ‘poor environment’ and ‘broken family’ in social and economic aspects. Focusing on those who are vulnerable, powerless or sad or lack lots of things as described above, the fairy tales of Jeong Chae-bong received the reviews as being ‘happy’ or ‘beautiful’ because of the unique stylistic features of Jeong Chae-bong and appropriate adaptation of fantasy. It was identified that Jeong Chae-bong beautifully embodied the stories of lonely and sad people by strategically using his unique writing styles and fantasy in his early fairy tales. Moreover, this paper found out that such narration strategy selected by Jeong Chae-bong eliminated our prejudice on the alienated people and the refined words observed in the stylistic features pursued the value which had to be complied by juvenile literature. Accordingly, it can be concluded that Jeong Chae-bong enhanced the literary value of juvenile literature and kept the unique features of juvenile literature. As such, his fairy tales made significant contribution on the development of juvenile literature.