빨치산 구술생애담에서 나타난 ‘산’의 장소화 연구

Abstract

This study explored aspects of place-making of ‘mountain’ on anobject of oral life stories of partisans who took part in the KoreanWar. In a field of geography, there have been steady studies forspace and place. Relying on accomplishment of these studies,recently there have been attempts of studies for space and place invarious viewpoints in a field of literature as well. Space together with time is an important medium to explain theidentity of human beings. Space becomes life background of humanbeings. As significated experience of human beings is accumulated,space becomes a place and the place affects life of human beingsagain. A place is the cumulative results of significated experience ofhuman beings, and an onset from which world’s perception horizongets expanded. We can comprehend traces of life through a place,and aim at present position of subjectivity with which past andfuture are connected. Mountains for partisans during the Korean War at the time werea place to defend their ideology and thought that they chose, and topreserve their lives confronted with the fear of death. Thus,mountains were an important place for partisans. However, partisanshad to remain silent in Korean society after the war. Accordingly, it was quite hard to hear their experiences at firsthand. Instead, massmedia showed pictures of partisans. In this process, the placeness of‘mountain’was embodied together. There has been an indispensableaspect of the fact that the pictures of partisans and the placeness of‘mountain’ were deliberately created by being dominated by thediscourse of the power and the times. This study tries to come out of the pictures of partisans and theplaceness of ‘mountain’ that were drawn by the mass media. Thisstudy explores partisans’ mountain lives through their oral lifestories that were addressed by themselves, and based on theexploration, investigates the placeness of ‘mountain.’ In this way,this study raises problems related with the one way image makingregulated by the mass media and the placeness of ‘mountain,’ and isin a process of exploring a multiple placeness of ‘mountain’ at thesame time.