이용악 시의 변방지역에 나타난 공간의 이동성 연구

Abstract

Through the mobility of wandering people in border area found in Lee Yong-ak’s poems, this author sees the northern area including Manchuria and the Littoral Province not as negative space full of pain during the Japanese Colonial Era not as alternative space to survive. In fact, the border described in Lee Yong-ak’s poems about the border area is not the ‘barrier’ to Manchuria or the Littoral Province but the ‘route of moving’ that allowed the wandering people to seek transition in their lives. Advanced research dealing with the hometown or northern area found in Lee Yong-ak’s poems assumes the stereotyped spatial essence of it so fails to examine the socially meaningful networks found newly in Lee Yong-ak’s poems. This author, however, explores the wandering people’s route of moving and the characteristics of the place where they met each other and extends the depth of the social meanings that border area tends to produce. This is an approach applied by focusing on the spatiality of border area found in Lee Yong-ak’s poems in relation to structural drivers attributed to trans-border extension, so it provides his poems with realistic meanings newly. Examining the mobility of space reproduced in literature is not just distinguishing this place from that but understanding different realities of this and that place inducing the migration of characters. Also, exploring the aspects of the agents’ migration within works is intended to figure out how the meanings produced in the space itself are associated with their lives. Lee Yong-ak captures not only the characteristics of the place where the people wandering around the northern area during the Japanese Colonial Era met each other but how they had social relationships with each other there and then reproduces the narrative containing the people’s route of moving and nodes as poems. The spatiality of that border area tells us that there existed mixed and complex aspects of different localities for the people wandering there, but they did confront the reality having solidarity with consciousness of kind as people rooted out. Therefore, the border area pictured in Lee Yong-ak’s poems appears as space where colonial reality was concentrated through a variety of local mechanisms accumulated in the wandering people’s world for living.