장소와 공간의 지역문학―지역문학의 문화론

Abstract

So far, regional literature has been discussed in a nation level. Strictly speaking, however, the discussion has focused on local literature. To review local literature has something to do with restoring locality which has been placed around modern literature, which orients universality, or outside the mainstream of literature system. In reviewing local literature, exploring materials related to local literature are developed from the perspective of localism, and regional researchers investigate regional literature, and accordingly, describe the history of regional literature. In fact, their are already accumulated studies about regional literature and profoundly strengthened logics of the literature, But the studies and the logics have some limitations because they were made or created based on dichotomy between the center and the peripheral area, so they are culturally and politically inclined. As we face the era of global capitalism in the late 20th century, considering locality within the dimension of nation-state comes to have some limitations, making the concept of regional literature more and more ambiguous. In other words, it is being requested that the logics of regional literature is based on a combined understanding of 'locality' in a nation level and 'regionality' in the level of the entire world. The purpose of this study is to restructure the logics of regional literature in accordance with changed perceptions of the literature and then find to draw significant theories of literal criticism and creation method out of the restructured logic. What these moves ultimately reach is to conceptualize "the regional literature of place and space". This conceptualization is very important because it helps overcome the simplification of regional literature as peripheral to the mainstream of literature, have a combined understanding of regional literature in the levels of both a nation and the entire world and ultimately develop new standards of literal criticism and a new method of literal creation. The extended concept of regional literature is not associated with total production by literary men of a particular region. but with how to reflect region, especially represented as place and space, in literature. Place and space are what exist materially and where the expansion of existences is perceived. From the perspective of regional literature, place and space are not only where it is identified, but also where a spectrum ranging from social power and system to the entire globe is provided. Thus, the regional literature of place and space involves the phenomenology of place, theories of space culture and so-called 'geopolitical aesthetics'.