2000년대 노동자 글쓰기의 주체화 양상과 양식화의 가능성

Abstract

The life-writings of the working class, which were active in the 1970s and 80s, lost the momentumof the literary movement that continued through excavation and expansion as in thepast. Workers’ life-writings in 2000s, seen through ‘Jeon Tae-il’ Literature Award, seems tohave exhausted its unique stylistic value between the literary style and the realism of reportage. However, workers' writings requires stylistic diversity and explores new possibilities for laborliterature in the differentiation of writing subjects. Salt flower trees is a typical writing byworkers. This text combines the form of records and reports of past the ‘Factory girls’sMemoirs’. This diversity is possible by the worker's subjectivity guaranteed by the writer as aworker, and the power of the subjectivity is exerted by confirming the singular, and the literacyof the working class that is distinct from the literacy of the power played a role in overcomingthe limitations of workers' writing in the past. Recently, the subject of literacy of the working class goes beyond the scope of workers. College students and novelist subjects raise labor issues, perform labor writing, and raise laborissues. The division between the subject of labor and the subject of writing can eventually beevaluated as the performance of literacy of the working class, and college students performwriting of becoming-workers by being aware and confessing that they are also belongs to theworking class. In the case of novelists, while clarifying the position of intellectual writers, theyshow an attitude of literary reflection on labor issues through the practice of writing to overcomeobjective reality. Above all, the workers' writings should be carried out by the actual worker subject, resultingin progressive results. However, in order for workers' writings not to follow past problems,it is necessary to move toward building the literacy of the working class. The first is the personal history writing as a worker. As individual workers' experiences are described in the publicsphere, it is confirmed that individual experiences form the unique value of the working class,that is, the literacy of the working class. In addition, it blocks intellectual intervention, andboth narrators and recipients of narratives have qualities that can shape the inner side of workersin mutual writing and conversational writing assuming workers. Workers' writings describedthrough this process represents the essence of the literacy of the working class as a systemof independent knowledge and discourse.