'몸말'의 민족시학과 민족 젠더화의 문제 ― 백석의 경우 ―

Abstract

Elements for daily life, including dialect, food, urinating, and traditional holiday customs described in detail in the poems of Paek Seok go beyond the oughtness and abstraction that the national literature has displayed so far. In other words, the real elements for daily life embody "social reality". Phenomena in a micro- historical approach form feminine solidarity and unified entity in daily life through real experience accumulated throughout history. Dialect as body language learned from childhood, food as accumulated factor, and customs are no longer medium for linguistic mediation or go beyond the idea injection into consciousness. They call out "real physical experience" or "Experience as body's memory." Nevertheless, what we should take into account is that like other writers in the area of the national literature during the colonial period, the poet, Baek Seok identified woman with the nation in the construction of reviving the people's life. Assuming that woman is the pure essence of literature that should be protected from external suppression, he constructed woman as pure and ahistorical signifier. Space of motherhood in the poems of Baek Seok threatens as well as embraces the colonial reality. The motherhood displays dual features of awakening the self-identity through the body's memory that it implies, and ahistoricity through fantasy identification. The space of motherhood contains this complexity as it is associated with the nation's identity. In short, Baek Seok's poems found a countermeasure not influenced by the holistic ideology of modern times, not outside of the colony but inside the colony. i.e., in the post-modernistic form of casual, real field or marginal culture. However, considering his childhood is fantastic realism without others' traces, rather, there rises a doubt that the traits or nature of the colony is abstracted. Given the process of recovering the commonality of the nation was sought in the concept of marginality, motherhood and family, his poems show one feature of the national literature. But at the same time, dilemma arises due to the abstraction of the nation by gendering. In the end, Baek Seok's poems will be corroborative evidence that displays well in the literature the problems of the nation's memory and the complexity of motherhood.