1980년대 초 ‘시와 정치’, ‘시의 정치’라는 사건의 단면: 동인지 <시와 경제> 연구

Abstract

As the new army group prohibited publication of major literary magazines, literary coterie magazines that are published irregularly emerged as a new channel of literature. The emergence of literary coterie magazine “Siwa-Kyoungje”, the first volume of which was published in 1981, is also grounded on such social trend. Even though the second volume in 1983 was the last one to be published, “Siwa-Kyoungje” has remained as a leading literary coterie magazine that represents the 1980s. This paper analyzed the ideology of literary coterie magazines pursued by the literary coterie members of “Siwa-Kyoungje” as well as the touchpoint and rift in the implementation of such ideologies in poetry. The first volume of “Siwa-Kyoungje” was against the idea of turning poetry into something aristocratic, and rather declared the popularization of poetry based on the argument to get rid of the distance between poetry and daily life. ‘Economy’ claimed by them is ‘administrating the state to relieve the people´s suffering,’ which is the doctrine of traditional Confucianism to save the people by governing the world. This had also indicated ‘poetry and politics’ or ‘politics of poetry.’ However, it is difficult to say that the goal of “Siwa-Kyoungje” was actually embodied as actual work. The poems in the first volume were problematic in the sense that they were not articulation of ‘realistic language’ and ‘linguistic reality’; rather, they showed the tendency in which the will to reform the reality excessively encroached on poetic language. The second volume of “Siwa-Kyoungje” clearly revealed the agenda of ‘prospects as laborers.’ The literary coterie of “Siwa-Kyoungje”, which was a group of intellectual elites in the Korean society, published laborer and poet Park Nohae’s works. They thought that the people had to actively devote themselves to literary creations. The decision was based on the intent that the truth, which is obtained only when spoken by the ones that are discriminated and exploited, serves as the motivation for literature to exert great power as a movement. This perspective seems to be integrating intellectuals with the people, but also has the high risk of internally resetting hierarchy. “Siwa-Kyoungje” was an event that abruptly occurred in the dominant order forced by government power. Another event occurs in line with that event, which is the emergence of Park Nohae. Park’s poetry was an event that shook the contemporary poetical arena and “Siwa-Kyoungje” to the core. As one of the people, Park incompletely yet instantly jumped into the actual state of poetry pursued by “Siwa-Kyoungje”.