신경림 시에 나타난 로컬의 혼종성과 탈중심성 연구

Abstract

Research on local hybridity and post-centrality manifested in Sin Gyeong-rim’s poems postulates a return to locality underpinning one’s life by characterizing not a homogeneous space but a non-homogeneous place. Sin Gyeong-rim’s travel poems represent local place-ness at home and abroad. The context influencing his place representation is that he is a Korean born in Chungju. The poet represents places towards locals in overseas destinations as a traveler from a semi-peripheral country and in domestic destinations as the same type of person as locals. That is, in tourist destinations, he is a tourist with some capital power and at the same time a semi-peripheral person who observes and reports a central view of others towards locals. Thus, Sin Gyeong-rim’s poems capture a dual mechanism, i.e. the local centrality and the periphery. The local hybridity and post-centrality manifested in Sin Gyeong-rim’s poems constitute the very research on positive and negative effects of globalization on locals. Current capital globalization has emerged as a critical factor affecting the local. The local are characterized by the hybridity of their placeness-based culture and the capitalization-based western culture attributable to cross-border capital flows. Also, cross-border globalization underscores the likelihood of the local to gain further autonomy and to settle as independent segmented units. The culture based on the local forms the place-ness that constitutes democracy involving freedom, happiness, rights and sovereignty where the local stand against the central power. Moreover, the place-based culture empowers the peripheral subjects and communities that used to exist as sub-subjects far from the center of capital to emerge. The poet’semi-peripheral aspects manifested in his poems serve as some food for thoughts over the issues of capitalization the local are subjected to, the binary- opposition components with inherent centralism, and the locals’ orientation towards coping with the foregoing trends in life. The real challenges facing the local, e.g. a sense of alienation of the local resulting from the state-oriented ideology, expanding capitalism or mammonism, the envy and jealousy of the local towards the central, and the identity crisis of the local ascribable to globalization, should no longer be addressed with economic or political logics only. Instead, given such challenges are associated with human life and identity, they need be rectified from a fundamental and integrated perspective conveyed by literature.