박인환 시의 탈식민주의 연구

Abstract

This article attempts to trace the postcolonial aspects in Bak, In-hwan"s poetry and in turn to establish the concreteness of his aesthetic modernity. In his twenties, he experienced the 1945 Liberation, the American Military Government and the Korean Civil War. Since the entrance of the literary world, he has held self-consciousness as a modernist consistently. Thus, his poetry contains the distinctive recognition of reality and history, specifically the circumstances of Korea and the world in the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Bak, In-hwan succeeded in figuring how closely related the colonizer and the colonized were. He also efficiently demonstrated the structure of the persecuter and the persecuted linked each other. Then he criticized the negativity of Eurocentric progressivism by means of the temporal multiplicity of space. The most notable characteristic of his works is to understand the imperialist strategies in the context of the world history and reflect his hope of the solidarity of Asia. In showing the situations of colonies such as Cambodia, Indonesia, he leads us to face the real conditions of Korea. Furthermore, he actively resisted the violent structure immanent in modem project of the West by resolving his will of struggle against Imperialism. However, through the journey of America shortly after the Korean Civil War, this view of his in the Liberation period was changed remarkably. His modified view is that the empire"s images, which had shown inside the colony before, were destructed inside the empire. In other words, he observed the inner conflicts of empire and revealed the falsehood of the empire as the solid center by relating individual with individual inside the empire. Nevertheless, he still considered otherness and reexamined the question of the colonizer/the colonized newly. This provides us the features of aesthetic modernity as negativity which could destruct modern project characterized the principle of elimination by means of the dichotomic thought. The postcolonial attitude of Bak, In-hwan could coincide with his modernist ideal, because he pursued the concrete aesthetic modernity based on historical reality.