<아기장수>설화 속 부모의 피해자서사 연구 -『한국구비문학대계』의 “질만한데 지기” 유형을 대상으로-

Abstract

This article regarded many tales about Agijangsu as a victim narrative. To address this reading, analyzed the narrative of Agijangsu’s tale. This article based on that a narrative structure is made up two levels which are a story-level and a discourse-level. In a story-level, every narrated event is for tragedy, this means all process of this story going necessarily to death of a baby who is hero-to-be. This is the tale procedure of Greimas and logical premise of inverse order in a narrative. In this level, the thing that we can find is that Agijangsu’s tale’s all happenings only make parent’s act-infanticide a reasonable murder, and that is only one that they can choose for their living. And next, in discourse-level, I can find that both the baby who is to-be-hero and the ruling class in this narrative world communicated with the parents as each. The reason why baby’s parents followed a ruling class’s commands actively more than a baby’s request is their sense of fear about the extermination of family is stronger than about the loss of their child. A baby who is to-be-hero in this tale does not give only parents full explanation of their act for the baby but also the hope for parent’s future clearly. On the other hand, a ruling class’s threat has penetrated in parents’s mind deeply as a fear of death and a disaster of their family. In this level, the thing that we can find is that Agijangsu’s tale has taken charge of not only the people’s frustration and hope but also self-justification about baby’s death. With These finding, We can see Agijangsu’s tale is on position of parents as a victim narrative.