여성의 언어로 재현된 1980년 ‘5월 광주’

Abstract

This article amis for studying how the woman as the mnemonic subject of the Gwangju May 1980 embodies the heartrending site of Gwangju into the poems through mnemonic working. This starts from bringing up the problem that the woman which has not been recognized as a resisting subject even though women have been appeared constantly in the poems. In the female poets’ poems, the May 1980 has been recreated as an image of the subject which embodies the sorrow of loss into a mother and a maternal instinct, the subject which struggles with a damaged body, and the subject which shows the denial against the absurd society through self-controling and overcoming. They selected the way of internalizing the public injury and pains of the May 18. In the female poets’ poems, they selected the way of embodying the memory of the day by describing the ego which suffers between the sense of inferiority about the violence and the split of the sense of identity rather than by maximizing the scene of acts of brutality or describing the explicit struggling site as the resisting subject. It is of great significance that the female poets’ ways of recreating the Gwangju 1980 offers the chance of positioning the new existence as the human subject beyond the woman’s life as a gender. Arousing the May Gwangju 1980 through the female language has a great significance in that it stirs up that May literature is all of our problems and it offers the local literature frame, beyond just one group or local and gender’s view.