이용악 시에 나타난 유민(流民)의 트랜스로컬리티 연구

Abstract

The study on the translocality of Lee Yong-ak’s poems allows one to consider the boundary implications implicit in diasporic life of the drifting people during the Japanese colonial period in association with the political and social confusion at the time. The translocality serves as a concept that interprets the cross-boundary phenomenon of Yong-ak’s poems, which is hard to explain from the existing dichotomic demarcation and to reason the power mechanism that allows the drifting people of the time to face the reality and seek hope. The 'north' or ‘northern region’ that appears as a central space in the Lee Yong-ak’s poetic world stretches its reach beyond his hometown and the Duman River to Manchuria and the Yeonhea Ju. Therefore, the Duman River and the Yeonhea Ju hold translocal meanings as a transboundary northern continent. The drifting people who travelled around a backwater of North Hamgyeong Province, lived outside the boundary of 'people' or 'nation' but rather in the transnational space of the north while continuously crossing the border. This study intends to examine the translocal life of the drifting people through the Dumen River as a boundary and the Yeonhea Ju as an alternative land. To the drifting people, the Duman River was a crossroad that they had to go through on their way to finding a new life. Crossing the river, which is basically crossing the border, was a dangerous attempt but seeking to reach the land across the river was the last option for their survival. Lee Yong-ak's father and relatives create a translocal network between their hometown and the Yeonhea Ju. Such network is built in close contact with the locals within a nation regardless of the counties of Korea and Russia. In addition, the hometown and the Yeonhea Ju feature translocal characteristics that embrace and enjoy the culture and the locality of the both regions instead of the disconnected memory and nostalgia. The hybrid identities of the drifting people are a result of the process of migration from their place of origin to a new destination, which is an essential element of the Lee Yong-ak’s literary world. The translocal perspective, in this regard, gives rise to meaningful results in interpreting the migration (migrating people). The circumstances today that allow the active and easy mobility of people and things both in reality and in virtual world make us understand the various phenomena that occur at local boundaries. This brings out the meanings latent in the local as a new territory that traverses the local boundaries and speaks of the placeness of the local by the macroscopic and structural driver of the globalization era and the identities of the people who live in there.