정석교 시의 장소성과 서정적 리얼리즘

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to academically illuminate the world of Jeong Seok-gyo, which has not been the subject of academic research. His poetic achievements through local history in the convergence of local and local organizations need to be noted in local literature research today. To argue this, the world of Jeong Seok-kyo was analyzed centering on the locationality. Jeong Seok-kyo finds human existence in a space that is perceived as extinction and regression by the logic of modernization. Train stations(way station) and coal mines were built to steal Japanese colonial era resources, and after liberation, they were in charge of national economic development during the industrialization period. The disconnected aspect of mobility seen in local train stations(way station) metaphoricalizes the reality of a region that has rapidly declined since the 2000s, and at the same time reveals the contradiction of developmental and purpose-oriented modernization logic. The images of 'river' and 'sea' of Jeong Seok-kyo appropriates modernity, represented by speed and gallop, as images of 'rest' and 'curves'. It forms an aesthetic level of mobility through image appropriation to connect the disconnected relationships and delay the logic of modernization. The coal mine becomes a sacred space by the national discourse of national economic development. However, it was a mechanism that forced the sacrifice of coal mine workers. Therefore, Jeong Seok-kyo poeticizes the tragic lives of coal mine residents and exposes the deceptiveness of national discourse. This coal mine experience is imprinted on the body and becomes a place to feel the changing times. Today, on the surface, the suppression of the national macro-discourse has weakened, but the individual's body is more fragmented by capitalist desires. Jeong Seok-kyo symbolically reveals this contradiction of the times through the problem of 'youth non-regular workers'. Jeong Seok-kyo discovers the possibility of a microscopic revolution in natural objects that cross the boundaries of neoliberal territories while based on problematic reality. At the starting point of the Jeong Seok-gyo poetry world, affection for the region is located. At the same time, the region exceeds the geopolitical unit. This is because the poetry world of Jeongseokgyo, which shows the human life and the basis of existence of region and labor, is ultimately linked to the problems of our lives. In this sense, Jeongseokgyo poetry needs to be discussed not only in the history of local literature, but also in the history of folk literature and the history of Korean literature.