신동엽 시의 서구 지배담론 거부와 대응

Abstract

The age of direct imperialism has come to end. The problems of imperialism and colonialism, however, are not limited to the past but still exercise their power to make culture and ideology active in the reality of those who have experienced colonialism. Studies up to the present have chiefly been concerned with the violence and damage which imperialists inflicted, and with questions of casting off colonial leftovers. The foundation of Sin, Dong-yub's poetry is criticism and rejection of 'modern civilization.' For him, since modern civilization is occidental, it necessarily has an imperialistic nature and contains anti-life elements. There appears to be a rejection of the colonialistic nature of western culture and a criticism of the savagery and destructiveness of modern culture hidden behind the Western emphasis on progress and development. His poetically expressed anarchy is derived from Taoism. He used the idea of anarchism as a method of criticising the ruling ideology, colonialism, and negative modernity. In a broad sense, anarchism will furnish material in the discourse against colonialism, because it not only criticizes modern civilization and culture, but also pursues an ecological world view and the Taoistic opposition to an exclusively human-centered society.