마이너리티의 언어와 신체‒사키야마 다미에서 한림화까지‒

Abstract

The interest in this article began attempting to examine aspects of Jeju literature and Okinawa literature responding to the standard language literature books. The reason for looking into Jeju literature along with Okinawa literature is to investigate that the linguistic rank is not a special and individual problem at the national level. Jeju and Okinawa, especially, are good comparison targets for having established unique language systems differ from the symbolic language of the standard language, respectively, for example, it is the matter of overcoming the rank of language and linguistic practice embodied in the works of Hanlimhwa and Tami Sakiyama. Above all, the two writers resonate greatly as rejecting the self-evident world of standard language and confirming the existence of a local language full of heterogeneous uttering. After comparing the works of the two writers, the following meaningful conclusions were obtained. That is, it is clear that the memory struggle surrounding who speaks and who remembers was a “memory struggle between Jeju and Okinawa” but looking at the memory struggle between Jeju and Okinawa from a (female’s) historic perspective of suffering can be a repetition of the violence of the nation’s memories in the region, and it is a fact that memories of Jeju and Okinawa can be even more enriched when remembered as an outcry that expressed independent choices and autonomous wills without targeting the languages of women and other minorities.