환동해 재난 서사와 민족주의－2000년대 재난 소설과 영화를 중심으로－

Abstract

This paper is designed to speculate the relationship between ‘disaster narrative’ and ‘nationalism’ in the East Sea Rim region. Disaster Narrative implies all kind of literature which includes any kinds of disaster as its subject. In other words, disaster narrative includes all kinds of cultural expressions such as films, fictions, and cartoons, in which roots in “the imagination of disaster.” Writings based on the imagination of disaster cover any events that the human can’t control it. Disaster narrative reproduces non-controllable natural disasters as main theme, for instance the stories about floods, tsunami, and earthquakes, and so on. Natural disaster implies all events which are able to destroy peoples’ lives. The fundamental nature of disaster is its destructive character which may demolish ordinary, repeated, and regular lives of human beings. People experienced natural disaster tend to be extremely chaotic in their social relations and psychological status. In that context, the subjective boundary of disaster narrative discourse expands to nationalism or statism discourse. In case of a disaster narrative story with nationalism discourse, the structure of the story is that membership of a nation can be intensified among members who has experienced such a fear of disaster and begun to imagine a nation community. Disaster tends to be regarded as something outside of a nation in the perspective of traditional nationalism. It is a hidden strategy that relationship of a national community can be strongly tied up by overcoming difficulties of a disaster from outside of national community. This paper is designed to look into the relationship between disaster narrative and nationalism among people in East Sea Rim regional countries. In particular, it is to shed some light on how disaster narrative of that region influence people’s nationalism. The findings of this study lead us to investigate the relationship between the politics of disaster and disaster narrative in a certain region. This study focuses on the films and novels of floods/tsunami as disaster narratives in East Sea Rim region. The scope of the study includes disaster narratives which were published in North/South Korea, China, Japan and Russia after the 2000s. Thus, the study selects the following films and novels as disaster narrative in East Sea Rim region;<Haeundae>(2009, south korea), <Sinking Of Japan>(2006, Japan), 『Megafloods』(2006, China), 『Influential Craze of Ranam』(2004, North Korea), <Siberia MonAmour>(2011, Russia).