아라이(阿來) 소설에 나타난 티베트에 대한 상상과 기억에 관한 연구 - 소설 『格拉長大』와 『空山』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper attempted to study Tibetan imagination and memory in a novel by a famous Tibetan novelist A-Lai. A-Lai is a Chinese ethnic minority writer who has truly described Tibetan ethnic culture and reality. He tried, among other things, to show the “as-is” true Tibet, rejecting what outsiders see as “mysterious” Tibetan imagination. In his view, analyzed the Tibetan imagination and memory problems in his representative works, “Gela has grown up” and “The empty mountain” in several aspects. First, in A-Lai’s novel, he expressed his imagination and memories of Tibetan culture, along with a natural description of his native village in Tibet. It is especially accusing the reality of their deaths and rituals being dismantled from the traditional ideas of death and religion. Second, the novels reflect conflicts and conflicting aspects that maintain aspects of Tibetan life and culture as traditions and embrace modern culture under the Communist Party, which can be called the arrival of a new conference. Amid this reflection, the changing world of consciousness of the people of their hometown is being expressed in tandem with the modernizing reality of “Jicun” villages. Third, there are critical reflections on nature and ecology in this work. It has a critical review of the new society in the Tibetan ecological reality of living in harmony with the village’s great fire and nature. In conclusion, A-Lai’s novel reflects Tibetan minority culture as a member of the Tibetan people and conveys the true picture of Tibet. The author’s novel will allow him to contemplate various identity and cultural problems in Tibet while also understanding their lives and cultures.