지역 문학 담론에 대한 비판적 고찰

Abstract

No divergent view can be found in the fact that Korean literary circles are exceedingly centralized. It cannot be, however, ignored that the arguments which stress on the importance of regional literature are too ambiguous and partial. This paper, starting with so called “controversy on literary power,” examines the aspects of conflicts between central literature and regional literature, and argues that there is no substance in the notion of ‘regional literature,’ which has not a clear connotation but just an effect phenomenon without substance. Another aim of this study is to delve into the way the institution of ‘Going on the platform,’ which is a particular system in Korean literary circles, reinforces the centralism of Korean literary circles, and, also, the way it puts literature into a frame of a system. ‘Going on the platform’ can be defined as a kind of an initiation a new writer must go through to be admitted into an established literary world. The recent arguments, which emphasize the importance of regional literature,assume very serious dimensions concerning cultural commercialism with going in gear with the cultural policies of local autonomous entities. This paper criticizes such kind of situation and asserts that the proper purpose for the debate of regional literature is not emphasizing of regional particularities, but carrying out its original function of ‘distribution of the sensible,’ a notion drawn from Jacques Rancière’s argument on politics and aesthetics.