한국 현대문학에서의 ‘어머니’ 표상과 ‘희생’ 서사

Abstract

To read mother's sacrificial love, we can date back to 1960's and start from researching the root of Korean culture since 1960's in the historical context. Right after 4.19 Revolution, the mothers of victims in April showed their dedicated “Sacrifice” and unconditional “love”, which ware raised as the appellation of ‘Loftiness’ in the rhetoric logic. Mother called out of the family became a major footstone able to decide the fortune of people and country under the name of ‘Revolution and Health.’ Such mother is like an asexual existence with female signs removed. In other way, a mother story shown in Han Seung-won's and Lee Cheong-jun's novel is full of ‘sufferings and oppression’ This mother is different from the presentation of “lofty sacrifice” above mentioned. Literary works are the texts of persecution testifying that the oppression, sacrifice, and Han(tears & regrets) of mother are connected with historical trauma. There needs careful interpretation because in the works, the narration of mother's sacrifice implies the motive of traditional legends such as ‘The Baby General’ and ‘Baritegi’ in their structure. Through this, we can pose a question: Isn't mother's sacrifice a continuously required thing over the traditional and modern difference. The “name” of mother was the sign of sacrifice extremely “discriminating” historical trauma, experiencing Japanese occupation, division of country, civil war, 4.19 Revolution, dictatorship of the Yushin Regime, and 5.18 Gwanju Uprising. They are “the names” representing numerous souls sacrificed by history under “the name of moral obligation” using rhetoric instead of the name of violence.