<최척전>의 동아시아 전란 디아스포라와 그 특징

Abstract

This study aims to search that Choi Chuk Jeon has a purpose to heal the trauma of war. For this, the writer approached to the main characters' behaviors and the descriptive structure with a perspective of the war Diaspora. As the result of study, the fact was founded that there are five kinds of the Diaspora in this work. Firstly, there is the Diaspora stemmed from one's own will before Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592. The second kind applies to the Diaspora settled down desperately in China. The third kind of the Diaspora was formed in process of being deported to Japan because of the war. The fourth kind of the Diaspora signified the Chinese settled down in Korea by war. The fifth kind of the Diaspora had a family in order to look for one's family members settled down in the other country. Through this analysis, the fact reveals that there is a difference between the general Diaspora and the Diaspora of Choi Chuk Jeon. Usually, the Diaspora has a feature to get poor treatment and discrimination from the majority folks. However, that characteristic doesn't appear in Choi Chuk Jeon. The Diaspora of this work has the complementary relationship with folks of the majority in the country. An ethic or racial group problem wasn't concerned and it focused on the horizontal relationship formation of each individual member. Japanese invasion of the historical reality was accepted as the perspective of nationalism. On the other hand, the Diaspora of this work means to accept from the multi-cultural perspective. the Diaspora of Choi Chuk Jeon didn't exist in the real world but it stemmed from the imagination that the hope would happen in real world. This disproves that Choi Chuk Jeon doesn't contain the East Asian war experience of 16th,17th centuries. Instead, this work formed as the literature work to comfort people for suffering East Asian war of three countries. For this reason, the fictive Diaspora didn't get the poor treatment or discrimination and had a happy ending to be reunited with family through the complementary and friendly relationship.