‘현장’의 노래, ‘광장’의 시 : 1980~90년대 초반 노동자문예운동과 시쓰기

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine labor (laborer) poetry created from the late 1980s to the early '90s. The times when the desire for transformation was more intense than ever led many to create and enjoy poetry with strong pathos. In particular, the existence of numerous worker 'literature associations nationwide, which were established after the June 1988 uprising and the July and August workers' great struggle, created conditions for creating more poems. Compared with the novels which require a lot of competence and time, the poetry was able to be relatively easily accessible to the workers under the plan of "easy poetry" being good poetry. Later, many poems were created, which were read aloud at the ever-changing scene of the struggle, and quickly enjoyed collectively through company newsletters, bulletins, and assembly promotion statements. Through this process, workers were able to express their painful reality and the intense life process of fighting to overcome it, and through this process, they were able to collectively share their image as beings embodying the social class. In addition, the fundamental nature of the working class, and the communitarianism shared by the reformers of the 1980s through such urgent moments introduced the 80s' unique creation system of collective creation. The initial collective creation system started from the meaning of the solidarity to overcome the limitations of class and the limits of experience to embody it. However, it ‘현장’의 노래, ‘광장’의 시 193 gradually accepted the socialist collective creation system to serve the purpose of the 'speed competition' and 'massive / large text production' in accordance with the ever- changing competition issues. The collective creation was performed centering on university students and professionals, and later it was also performed by worker literature associations which had bolstered their capabilities. However, this system which required a lot of time and capability was difficult to be applied to workers who always had to suffer from massive amount of labor. This collective creation system also proved the elitism concept of intellectuals. However, the fact that the system tried to not just reduce the works only to individuals-owned authored works, but also incorporate them into the groups so as to make cracks in the capitalize creation system, and the time and passion of numerous subjects that sacrificed only for the days that creative texts would be read in gatherings are the times' achievements that cannot be overlooked. In addition, the limitations of poor imaging, such as the schematism of the numerous worker poems created during the short period of time from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, have to be attributable to the ideological context poorness of the times which did not allow transformation and correction.