비극적 구전 서사 <액운애기> 연구

Abstract

Aekunaeki(액운애기:Misfortune A daughter-in-law) is the tragic oral-narrative that a talented woman has served the family of her husband with all her heart is gone suddenly leaving her child alone because all the family of her husband reject to die for her in spite of her asking when the messenger of the world beyond calls on her to take her to the other world. Aekunaeki was performed as a narrative-folksong twenty years ago has been transmitted by women performancers in the part of Gyeongsangnam-do, the northeastern region of Miryang and the western region of Eonyang. The narrative has been transmitted in the restricted area by women performance-community has been performed to explain why people cannot pass away orderly from the old to the young, why the young and children die suddenly, and why the dead cannot come to life again. It is the mythological narrative in respect that it is description and mimesis regarding what the human ontological limitation of the young's death and the impossibility of revival has originated from. The narrative on tragic death of Aekunaeki who represent human-being to be destined to die out of order has been performed to overcome the fear of sudden death. In the level of story, the death of Aekunaeki stir up the theme of 'adaptation' but the theme is varied to defiant recognition of social reality through performance. By means of the pity and the sense of guilt which the performers experience as they perform tragic oral-narrative they become to reflect on patriarchal reality call for her death and themselves connive at realistic absurdity to let Aekunaeki pass away, consequently Aekunaeki is not only the mythological narrative but also the feministic narrative.