신경림 시에 나타난 수몰고향의 로컬리티 연구

Abstract

Sin Gyeng-Rim takes a socio-historical insight on life as the main material of his poems, rather than an exploration of his ego to the extent that he defines his works as social poetry. Thus, it is necessary to read places in his poetry from the perspective of the placeness, that is, locality of the surrounding areas discriminated as others from the central power, rather than understanding them as places having his personal lyricism. In other words, Sin Gyeng-Rim produced works with his reflection on the spatial view according to the state’s development-oriented view in the 1980s through the placeness of his submerged hometown. The violence of the central power destroys the placeness of the local area and becomes concrete through the various ways in which the residents experience the place. Sin Gyeng-Rim visits his hometown at the crisis of submergence and experiences his past sticking in the place on the dimension of existential internality. In addition, he, who knows the geography of his hometown and each of the situations in which the residents are placed, meets and understands the essential elements that constitute the identity of the area to be submerged as an empathetic insider. Here, he materializes the changes that his hometown suffers, not by the inherent and original characteristics of his hometown, but from the influence of the state power connected to the outside of the boundary. Ultimately, the locality of his submerged hometown, revealed through Sin Gyeng-Rim’s memories and representation is to make works of art with the anger and the sense of loss of the residents in the submerged area, who have been excluded from the central viewpoint and to reinstate their lives. Currently, in the village submerged by Chungju Dam, the Namhan-gang riverside landscape, which had been beautiful before the construction of the dam, was destroyed and left as a mud flat, which rather spoils its image as a tourist destination, so it experiences a deteriorated locality. Therefore, a study on the locality of the submerged hometown in his poetry becomes a realistic and practical work that puts the development plans of the central power, not considering the placeness of the local area on the brakes in the situation in which the submerged area because of the construction of Chungju Dam with such a series of issues.