한국 전쟁과 신원 증명 장치의 기원 - 박완서 소설에 나타난 주권의 문제

Abstract

This paper focuses on the issue of sovereignty(sovereign power) on the apparatus identification (certificates) presented in Park Wan-Seo’s novels(Thirsty Season, Who Ate Up All the Shinga?, Was The Mountain There Really?) As is generally known, Modern national identification devices make it clear that the people are the identities listed in the document. This study particularly focuses on the punishment of collaborators and the issue of citizen cards. Park’s novels reveal the fact that the structure of state sovereignty is not limited to the legal order and the determination of territorial order, but is constituted by forming an exception. In Park Wan-Seo’s novels the figures are faced with the reality in which their life and death will be decided by the mere piece of paper called ‘citizen card’. From this viewpoint, the narrative of refuge is replaced by the opposition between certificate (citizen card, province resident card) and certificate (credentials, refugee card). This strategy of these figures aiming for the survival crossing the violent frontiers will extend into the problem of passing the international borders. The statements regarding the choices of ideologies and political regimes are secondary. The state sovereignty arrives to the figures of the novels, not under the form of the voluntary submission to the general will, but under the shadow of the fearful death. Structured by the code of inclusion/exclusion, survival hinges on the apparatus of nation building. Park’s novels demonstrate the fact that at the root of the citizenship of Korean society is the ‘bare life’. And it is at the same time the origin of the ambivalent aspirations of her novels to be established as a sovereign.