<공무도하가>의 가요적 성격과 디아스포라

Abstract

This dissertation avoids a mythical or a super-historical interpretation of <Gongmudohaga> and interprets the work by relating it to the social reality of the Ko Chosun(an ancient Chosun) era. First, the records related to <Gongmudohaga> were examined. This song passed down from one generation to the next first in our language and then adopted the Ak-bu style (Chinese verse), and it appears to have had multi-layer characteristics in the recording process. A number of the various records showed that the Baeksu-Gwangbu (a white-haired crazy man, 白首狂夫) was not recognized as having the same God-like identity of a shaman but as a man forced into a war or a person who wanders across the land. The song content of <Gongmudohaga> incorporated more of the problems of the social reality that the people of that time could deeply identify with than of spiritual or occult matters. Although it is not a definite fact, <Gongmudohaga> was a song that originated from a residential area of the Chosun people who lived in proximity to the river, and here, it can be surmised that the song involved serious social problems of KoChosun that drove the people to share the painful incidentsand feelings surrounding the death of the baeksugwangbu. This dissertation attempts to view the song as one that contains the joys and sorrows of those KoChosun people who wandered acrossthe land after perceiving the site of life together with the destruction of KoChosun. In other words, <Gongmudohaga> was a work of he spora culture that contained the grief and despairof the Chosun wanderers following the collapse of KoChosun. Two meanings that this song has in the history of literature were selected. The first is that over the process of changing from what was once recited in our language to an Ak-bu,<Gongmudohaga> became the first work to be translated into Chinese; hence, this song was the starting point of the exchange of Korean and Chinese shiga (poetry and song). Second, as a song containing the social reality of the time, <Gongmudohaga> was a work with strong realism-oriented characteristics and which contained the joys andsorrows of the difficult lives of the KoChosun people.