아라이 소설 속의 ‘어머니’ 형상의 양가성 연구- 『소년은 자란다』, 『색에 물들다』, 『거싸얼 왕』을 중심으로

Abstract

The present paper was started from having a critical mind that the historical tragedy of the country Tibet and Tibetans and the dilemma of Writer A Lai, who thereby could not help but passing by the real problems, were reflected in the ‘mother’ figure in his literary works such as Guerra Grew Up, The Dust Settles, and The Song of King Gesar. A Lai is a writer who stands by the borders of Huizu, Tibetan, and Chinese. He was born to a Huizu father and a Tibetan mother. He creates the stories of Tibet and Tibetans in Putonghua. In the literary works of A Lai, a Tibetan mother seldom appears. In Guerra Grew Up, Guerra’s mother was an outsider, unknown on her origin, but she settled down in Jicun under the silent approval of the villagers. In The Dust Settles, the Hanzu mother was sold to Maiqi Tusi and she gave birth to a baby boy named Fool. In The Song of King Gesar, there are two mothers of Gesar. In these works, the meaning of mother is ambivalent. The mother of Guerra, Sangdan, was the object that her son had to protect for good. And while Meiduonaze, the biological mother of Gesar in the human world, was the one who should be protected by her son Gesar in that she had suffered with her son and had been fallen to hell with his karma instead of him, and then she had been led to the buddhist paradise, Langmandamu who was his heavenly mother was his ideological mother in that she had continuously awakened him to accomplish the great tasks and had welcomed his returning to paradise with brilliance. It was thought that the Hanzu mother of Fool became as good as a Tibetan completely, however, she committed a suicide because she had got frustrated from her private desires. The mother of Guerra was not known whether she was Hanzu or not, but she continued to give birth to illegitimate children even though she was an outsider. Both Langmandamu and Meiduonaze who were the mothers of Gesar were not Tibetans. In these works, if mother is substituted into the homeland, it has different meanings in the cases of Tibet and China. Also, one cannot read the texts as if the homeland equals Tibet in each case of mother in the novels. It is therefore revealed as a truth that ‘son(Tibet)’ does not grow up fast only with love in the embrace of mother(homeland).