피폭여성문학자 하야시 교코(林京子)의 원폭문학 - 원폭의 범죄성(정치권력)에 대항하는 서벌턴 여성 피폭자의 침묵과 증언을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper examines the meanings of silence and testimony through the reproduction of Subaltern atomic bomb woman victims, around Kyoko Hayashi’s atomic literature, 『Nakigagotoki (無きが如き)』. The findings of the present study can be summarized as follows: First, the daughters of Nagasaki, who suffered from the fate of atomic bomb victims, whether they were atomic bomb victims or not, underwent hellish and unended August 9. They have become silent about the disastrous scene of the day, as they have been annoyed by the restraints including ‘August 9’, ‘Nagasaki’ and ‘atomic bomb’, as well as social prejudice and discrimination. Second, they despaired of the fact that the ‘survival’ of Subaltern atomic bomb victims does not only reflect the risk and criminality of atomic bombs but also its harmlessness ironically. Subaltern atomic bomb woman victims, however, remembered the mission of people who survived in the guilty of the survival and the mysterious fate. In August 6, they broke long silence and began to speak out about August 8. Third, Kyoko Hayashi’s atomic bomb literature attempts to remind us of the criminality of nuclear weapons (atomic bomb) threatening the survival of human beings, by transcending time and space. Her literature ultimately may be a resistance to the political authority favorable toward nuclear weapons. It is also a warning against breaking the myth of atomic bombs and the weathering of war and atomic bomb experiences.