자이니치와 인디언시인의 미국을 향한 시적(詩的) 저항

Abstract

This article takes up the works by the Zainichi poet Sijong Kim and those by the “Indian” poet in the USA Simon J. Ortiz, in particular their poems which describe the ethnic minorities and the socially vulnerable suffering the nuclear industry of the USA and its nuclear experiments. The two poets represent how the minorities live in virtue of the concept of “resistance” and interpretive objectification, depicting those who were massacred by American nuclear weapons but remained unknown to the world. The poems by Ortiz connect talks with understanding in the manner of an oral tradition, whilst the poems by Kim connect the poet (narrator) with the reader (hearer) in the manner of a narrative. In this article, I also analyze parallelisms between the poets in terms of their intention to write poems and the structures of their poems. Furthermore, I also suggest a new interpretation of these poems, sharing with the readers the stories of the minorities suffering the American colonialism, the nuclear industry, and nuclear experiments, and also replacing the evolutionary paradigm of “the disappearing ethnic minorities” with “their resistance as a means of surviving.”