아시아의 ‘상흔’ 겹쳐보기 - 오키나와전투와 한국전쟁을 둘러싼 문학적 응전방식

Abstract

The interest of this writing started from attempt to overlap Medoruma Shun's sensitive response on scar caused by Battle of Okinawa and Korean war more than anyone, and Asia's 'Scar', a work of Jeon, Sang-Gook. A point of contact could be observed among main motives from above two authors' renowned works, 'Forest of Memory' and 'The Family of Abe', which described the scar left by war, especially the rape incidents committed by US military. Above all, it will be easier to understand looking at it from the aspect of 'Colonial Physicality' or 'Asian body' as Yang Suk il out it, which were refreshed through recent talk between Nakazato sao and Medoruma Shun. There was a difference, however, in the way of Medoruma, that reveals the crumbling of inner community of Okinawa contradiction became vivid by the battle of Okinawa, and the way of Jeon Sang Gook who revealed the crumbling among ourselves by Korean war. The way of responding on American's violence was especially like that, in case of Medoruma, while initiating the 'Critisizing US' that accuses the violent war system after the war-postwar, bypassing the circuit called 'Critisizing Okinawa Community' and extended the reason by understanding body carved with scars of war, in case of 'Family of Abe', it either expresses hatred towards Americans, personalizes Kim Sang Man's killing of civilians and comrades by trapping it in the frame of 'guilt-salvation', or points out the limits not being able to deeply regret though it tried to reveal not only the violence by the Americans but also the one in us. Despite that, it was meaningful to know where these two works overlap in 'Asian Scar' or where they don't, and further by sharing the common suffering, they showed the possibility of literature responding that changes the possibility of violence into impossibility.