한국 아동서사문학의 ‘학교’ 공간에 나타나는 권력의 양상과 전복의 상상력

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing aspects of power and revolutionary imagination of Korean children's literature. The school is a space of co-existence for children. Writers want the school to be the space that children's variety can be showed, but the school of Korean children's literature is not a space for children's community. Writers think the school is a space that the Other is disappeared by the power of Subject. Writers have common understanding about this problem, but each writers show different imagination for revolution. The writer of 'I ask for the trial' suggests enlightenment to overthrow the power of the Subject. Enlightenment precondition that the Subject of enlightenment is predominant over the Other. So, this has a limit to change the system. In 'No whisper area', Yerin, the bad character is ruined by her immorality. Sera who have been bullied by Yerin is skeptical about good and evil. Scepticism of Sera helps her reflect. Sera is like with the writer of this text, so she can not show the children's characteristics. In 'Sign number 3, Sukbbong An', the Other-characters do not lose their characteristics under the power of the Subject. Their characteristics can be kept by the comicality in this text. It is a strong way for the revolution against the power of the Subject that the Others are in the school by maintaining their characteristics. Children being make the school the space of community.