民謠 歌唱者의 時間과 空間 意識

Abstract

This study aims to discuss how the traces of life experienced by women divers, the singers of <Women Divers' Rowing Songs>, were configured into the accounts of folk songs based on life stories of women divers by focusing on their recognition of time and space. Time recognition displayed in the accounts of <Women Divers' Rowing Songs> indicates women divers' effort and will to establish their identities through finding direction and guiding post in life as immigrants to settle in the mainland by reminiscing past within the time of present to recollect sceneries or memories of Jeju before their settlement in the mainland. As immigrants to settle in the mainland, their recognition of the homeland, if they cannot return home to Jeju-do, serves as a compass to overcome sorrow experienced as foreigners and conflict against residents of the mainland, to secure foundation for new life and to design the future ahead. It was found that, to women divers who settled in the mainland, the space of Jeju-do was their target of yearning in terms of the archetype of living in Jeju-do and was an archetypical space in which they found identities as the people of Jeju through while elbowing through conflict with natives of the mainland. Also, the archetypical space of Jeju-do served as a mechanism through which women divers overcame conflict caused by cultural alienation and collision experienced in the mainland. On the other hand, the space of mainland was being recognized by women divers both as a space of opportunity to achieve high income and as a foreign space in which they received disdainful treatment and abuse from the mainland natives. At the same time, the space of mainland was also recognized as a space in which they adapted themselves to the new and foreign culture.