디아스포라의 기억과 목소리의 재현 - 김숨의 『떠도는 땅』을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis is an article with the search for memory and voice recreated in the novel 『Wandering Land』 of Kim Soom with the point of view of Diaspora literature. Discussion on this article can be attributable to be the study with the focus on combining three elements of memory, space and voice that searched on the works formulating the historic experience for the author to scrutinize to this point. The author, Kim Soom combines the historic memory from the tragedy of mandated migration of Goryeo people (1937) with the personal memory of characters in the work and represented it in literature memory by adding his professionalism, In 『Wandering Land』, the spatial imagination of the author has been thoroughly depicted and the space related to the life of Goryeo people, Diaspora, embracing Joseon, the colonized land of its home country, Siberia State of Russia, its migrated country, and Central Asia. In the narrative, this ‘Erinnerungsräume’ is depicted and visualized as the ‘land (earth)’ for farming and settlement. As such, the Erinnerungsräume for people of Goryeo in Diaspora could be described as the space to contain the desire of historic community where they want to set their foot on and settle down. The polyphony appearing in voice of multiple speakers accompanied with multiple focalization and diversified sound manifests the multiple identity of state and people. The narrative states that the identity of Goryeo people as being of Diaspora is a type of hybrid while it is to be acknowledged as an individual case with respect to existential awareness. The characters of 『Wandering Land』 with the respective stories unyieldingly sustained its strong drive and vitality toward the existence under the turbulent life condition. The author, Kim Soom, represented the memory and voice of existence for the lives of Yumaeng (wandering people, nomad) through his 『Wandering Land』 in a way of testifying the existential value of Diaspora in literature.