백신애 소설의 동연대성 연구

Abstract

This study researched the works based on the life of Baek Shin-ae, a female writer who was a modern intellectual in colonial Joseon, through Doreen Massey’s spatial consciousness of ‘coevalness’. Baek Shin-ae’s works frequently depict moments when values ​​and situations are ‘degraded’ with a short time difference. In this situation, Baek’s many characters ignore the changed reality and try to stick to the existing values. This is the same for anyone, regardless of age or sex, poor or rich, nationality, modern intellectuals or people with pre-modern consciousness. Baek Shin-ae satirizes the reality of blindness that was prevalent in Joseon society at the time through these characters. This seems to be the result of the influence of her family background problems and the hardships she experienced while traveling to the Soviet Union. The response of Baek Shin-ae to this problematic situation and the prospect of improvement can be interpreted as the coeval attitude of Doreen Massey. Coevalness is an imaginary space and a kind of attitude that can be accepted as an equal social component that constitutes the time in itself. Only in the space of potential discord or harmony in which respect for the trajectory of coevalness, the area of concreteness that does not fall into blindness can be constructed. The characters of Baek Shin-ae’s works, who have deviated from the blindness enforced by the system, implicitly raise questions about the violence of the empire by showing the spatial imagination they can or cannot secure. Examples include the space in the train or the space in the mountains in In Darkness and Brightness and Beautiful Sunset. The fact that subjects who violate the usual rules in this space fail to secure an area to take root proves that the social share these beings should have is natural. Baek Shin-ae revealed the existences undergoing devaluation and the colonial Joseon where these beings exist. She wanted to find hope in coexistence with beings that could only be embraced through coevalness and those who deviated from social conventions but still existed. The theme of Baek’s works is toward the territory she wants to find, that is, the hometown she will discover after the loss of her hometown.