해방기 ‘흑인문학’의 전유 방식– 한흑구, 김종욱의 ‘흑인시’ 번역을 중심으로

Abstract

This study intended to investigate the meaning of African-American literary discourse in translated poems in the period of liberation through specific examples and analysis of translation of African American poetry that preceding studies have omitted. Kim Jong-Wook and Han Huk-Gu were the leading figures who translated African American poetry during the period of liberation and this study investigated African-American literary discourse and actual translation works around them. Liberation period was the period when it was difficult to get out of a sphere of influence of ideology. Therefore, the standard of translation of Western literature was the US(the West) and the Soviet Union of ideological nations rather than in esthetical excellence as literary works. However, it seems difficult to classify African American literature by that ideology. It is because the state subject to translation for African American literature is the United States, but the value cannot be considered as an American value. Considering that it is an 'odd phenomenon' that African American poetry has been translated and introduced intensively after liberation, the core of that unusual phenomenon would be as follows. According to the actual translated case, African American poetry can be classified into the poetry that exposes agony of identity, poetry about finding homes as a way of recovering identity, and poetry that exposes solidarity of resistance and oppressed people as the oppressed race. If agony of identity is the cause, the other two worked as a result. Also, this study examined the possibility of incorporation of world literature for a fresh start of our culture though translation and discourse of African American literature.