노근리 사건을 서사화하는 세 가지 방식

Abstract

The Nogeun-ri incident is a crime that happened on July 26th in 1950for four days after Korean war. During the incident, demilitarizedinnocent people were massacred by the U.S. Army around Gyeungburailroad and twin tunnel in Nogeun-ri, Hwanggan-myeon, Yeongdonggun,Chungcheongbuk-do. The Nogeun-ri incident was first depicted in a faction called, Thou,Know Our Pain(Dari, 1994) by Jung Eun-Young and recreated by ParkGun-woong in a cartoon called, Nogeun-ri Story 1・2(Saemanhwacheck, 2006). Meanwhile, in children’s literature, the Nogeun-riincident was described in Kim Jung-Hee’s book called, Nogeun-ri, thesummer of that year, Linda Soo Park’s book called, Keeping Score. andOh Mi-Kyung’s short story called, Flowers on the twin underpasses. While the book called, Nogeun-ri, the summer of that year wascompletely narrated by Kim Jung-Hee who has been embodied KoreanModern History literally, Keeping Score focuses on the pain theassailant U.S. Army has, makes people realize that not only assailantsand victims suffer from the war, but also all the people do, andemphasizes how tragic the war is. Additionally, Flowers on the twinunderpasses is a short story which is based on the young generationthat thinks a war is a game. All of these literatures narrate in differentperceptions. The common thing these three texts have is that they divide up theincident and let other people find out. For example, Nogeun-ri, thesummer of that year does not just end up with looking for the truth. Itbands together with people who survived throughout the pain. KeepingScore sympathizes with friend’s pain, shows pity, and does not refuseto sacrifice for others. Flowers on the twin underpasses shares others’agony. These literary works understand others through young readerswho did not experience Nogeun-ri and lead people to imagine others’pain. ‘I’ cannot be ‘You,’ but sympathizing the pain of ‘You’ who existright next to ‘I’ and the attitude of ‘I’ who can sacrifice for ‘You’ arethe ethical figures of practicing love. Memories get realistic effects by conversation. The historicalincident that the U.S. Army that came here to save freedom and peacecommitted a massacre of people who wore white clothes is stillconnected to all different forms of suppression. The more importantreason is after unended war Nogeun-ri. The significance of children’sliterature that narrates historical experiences shows political naturefrom this point. The literatures that describe Nogeun-ri recreate hopefuldiscourses instead of resistant discourses by thinking and concerningabout the relationship among individuals, communities, and countries,showing the figure of judgment, consoling others’ pain, and the spiritof sacrifice of sympathetic figure and the hope of the following.Therefore, call young readers as sympathetic subjects. The most humane attitude for children and teenagers who will growup as global citizens is listening to others’ pain and sympathizing withthe world of other people. The mental attitude of crying for other’s painand embracing others by holding out their hands is made in betweenthe things that cannot be said and the things that has not been said. Also, it is an emotional division and the politic that juvenile literaturetries to engage in.