현월(玄月) 작품에 나타난 폭력과 보편성의 문제 - 「그늘의 집」과 「나쁜 소문」을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis discusses how the violence in Hyeon-wol(玄月;Gen Getsu)'s works can acquire universality. Hyeon-wol's work shows the fundamental aspect of violence secretly hidden by the modern state. The modern state formed on the basis of armed forces firmly divided the boundary between the inside and outside of the state and turned the outside of the state into a state of barbarism. The modern sovereign state ghettoizes the space of violence by throwing people who do not belong to the state outside the state. A typical example is a colony. Modernity began with the discovery of colonies, and systematically structured the exploitation of colonies to form the framework of modern nation-states. The Zainichi Korean collective village, which is the background of Hyeon-wol's work, is also a space created in such modern history. The colonial space left behind in the collapsed empire, the Zainichi Korean collective village, was located completely outside the state and was forced to be exposed to double violence. The first is that due to the absence of a governing system, one has no choice but to implement violence directly with one's own body in order to keep collective and individual discipline. The second is that the entire collective village is subject to massive violence that can be annihilated by the state. The collective village is a space where the dual violence derived from the structure of the colonial empire and the colonized becomes visible. These collective villages are also spaces where invisible violence within the state finally becomes visible. Violence is invisible within the state. Because the state itself functions as a person through powers delegated by individuals (which is why only the state can exercise lawful violence), it also exercises its governing power in a covert way of discipline of the body. The government of these countries seems to operate equally and peacefully through the impersonal institution of law, but like numerous empires and states in history, it is based on class discrimination and violence of domination, just not visible The outside of the country, the collective village, is the space that most clearly reveals the fundamental violence inherent in the country. In this respect, Hyeon-wol's works can be said to show the aspects of violence encompassing both the inside and outside of the state, and show the universal form of human beings who live through violence through the specific aspects of the characters living in it.