제주4·3과 팽나무이야기: 마을 수호 및 학살의 정치성 문제를 중심으로

Abstract

I examined the narrative characteristics of the Hackberry Stories that appears in the Jeju4·3 Experience Stories and identified the meaning of the tradition in this study. In particular paying attention to the changes that occurred as the national stories of Guardian Tree of the Town was linked to the Jeju4·3 Incident, analyzed the Hackberry Stories. First, attention was paid to the fact that ‘Guardian Type’ of Hackberry Tree Stories reveals the tree’s magical properties, but has strong political meaning. Although it had the meaning of protecting the village, it was hostile to the armed band because it was said to protect the village from ‘riots’. In this respect, it can be said that this type of storis played the role of exclusively discrediting the left wing from the perspective of the military and police. Next, in the case of the ‘Retribution from the Earth Gods Type’ stories, the recall of the damage to the Hackberry tree and the Retribution incident by the heads of the village during the Japanese colonial era were seen as exposing and criticizing the massacre of the military and police as well as the village heads who represented the position of the military and police at the Jeju4·3 Incident. In short, the Hackberry Tree Stories written in the Jeju 4·3 Experience Stories clearly shows a strong sense of criticism toward the military and police who called the armed forces at the Jeju4·3 Incident into rioters and massacred Jeju residents. In that respect, it can be said that those who pass down the stories remember Jeju4·3 Incident not only as a serious political conflict, but also as a state violence led by the military and police.