1960년대 手記와 民/衆

Abstract

In this thesis, attention was given to the phenomenon that the 'memoir' was prevalent during the 1960s and it was viewed as a history of 'people-writings' in the 1970s as it was a process to expand the arena of public opinion that was triggered by the '4.19 Revolution'. After the '4.19 Revolution', there has been a boom of 'memoir' of people who experienced existential crises from poverty and separation, archaeology and ignorance, as well as disability and unemployment. Within these memoirs, the process of speaking the ‘unspeak- able pain’ would be personal as well as political. This is attributable to the fact of the expansion of literacy education after the liberation and the experience of democracy triggered by the '4.19 Revolution'. Through the foregoing effort, the existences invisibly excluded emerged in multiple appearances as well as the pain of individual captured in the memoirs was displayed as various crises in lives as contained within the state and the boundary of state/people has been reconfigured. However, the pain contained in respective memoir was divided and sealed with nationalism / self-development without developed with the ‘language of pain’. This is due to the fact that the respective pain was individualized without gaining the generality of pain, but in spite of that, the process of establishing the venue for public discussions for "Sorrow Even Up in Heaven" was analyzed considering it as the pre-history of symbolism of 'people' in the 1970s.