황순원 소설에 나타난 디아스포라의 지형도(地形圖)

Abstract

This study aimed at the macroscopicㆍstereoscopic understanding of the topographical map of diaspora in Hwang Soon-won's novel from the integrated view point on the theory of author and that of work. Taking new note of his identity, as a writer who came from north Korea, this study intended to review the refraction of the language in Hwang Soon-won's novel in the political and historical context. He was influenced by Christianity of northwestern province in Korea since early childhood. He accepted the diaspora that was originated from the history of Israelites as the motif of writing novel. The nostalgia for hometown and the desire of return are the figuration of Hwang Soon-won's novel begun with original experience of loss of hometown, which reflects the narrative journey of diaspora. He moved to Japan in the Japanese colonial periods as a Korean student and came from north Korea as a landowner to south Korea. This practical experience crossing the border can be ascertained by spacial topographical map of diaspora in his novel. The journey of diaspora is generally completed by returning home going through adversity far away from home. In Hwang Soon-won's case, his diaspora experienced by the study in Japan in the Japanese colonial periods finished through the process of his returning home and independence. However, the diaspora caused by coming from north Korea in the land reform period left unfinished as the division of the Korean Peninsula became permanent. To stir up his desire to return, he newly established imaginal topographical map in his novel. In the center of imaginal topographical map, there is northwestern province where is the center of Pyeongannam-do, his hometown. The northwestern province, the place of origin from his nostalgia is the formulated ideal space of original form in his novel. His hometown, Pyeongannam-do is reappeared in his novel after 4ㆍ19 revolution in 1960 and the exchange visits of separated families from North Korea and South Korea in 1985. He expressed his determination to return home concretely in his novel in later years, overcoming pressures that he couldn't express his home town in terms of language.