하층민 서사와 주변부 양식의 가능성 - 1980년대 논픽션을 중심으로

Abstract

The Increase of public readers and popular media drove the increase of novels and journalistic writings for both of them. In the course of modernity of literature, novels and journalistic writings are in complementary relations. The Journalistic writing is a meaningful genre which was generated for the reality and the perspective in the relation of literature and journalism. At the Korean circumstance of 1970s' writings and literature, nonfiction was a leading genre among the journalistic writings. Specially writings on urban subaltern had effects each other and showed a possibility of new style of writings. In 1980’s, many reportages, reportage fictions followed the success of Sons of Darkness(『어둠의 자식들』) which is the first reportage for the narrative of the subaltern in 1970’s. People in a slum(『꼬방동네 사람들』), Five widows(『오과부』), A woman in Mokdong(『목동아줌마』) by Yi, Dong Cheol(이동철), and People in Nanjido(『난지도 사람들』), The Queen Bee(『여왕벌』) by Yu, Jae Sun(유재순) are the most popular narrative of the subaltern. The former is one of the journalistic writings forms, not fiction. But the style is very tough and disorderly, because that works based on the real experiences of writer. He regarded himself as a member of the slum town, and took the consciousness of the subalternity. But when the narrative was going on, the speaker of the narrative became more distant from the objet, and the consciousness of the subalternity was weakened gradually. But A woman in Mokdong(『목동아줌마』) showed the possibility of the peripheral form by verifying the conditions of the subaltern’s utterance and active literacy of the subaltern. People in Nanjido(『난지도 사람들』), Yu, Jae Sun’s works are reportage fictions, or journalistic fictions. But subject matter of her fictions came from her experiences which similar to the journalistic writings. She wrote the fiction for the subaltern in Nanjido, a sanitary landfill. But her works did not make the reality of the subaltern as Yi, Dong Cheol did. Her works just emphasized the existence of a female reportage writer, because female reportage writer was few in 1980s, and existence of a female reportage writer could be in the spotlight. Her works tried a combination of journalistic reality and fictional imaginations, but the result was not inspiring.