소외의 재현-『뿌리깊은 나무』의 「숨어사는 외톨박이」 시리즈를 중심으로

Abstract

This article started with the question of how to place “the native people” that were represented in the series of “The lonely man hiding” in The Deep-Rooted Tree, in the topography of the people’s discourse or people’s representation. I was interested in the situation in which the way of life adhered to the tradition faces spontaneous or involuntary otherization in the vortex of industrialization. “The lonely man hiding” series recreated the resentment and struggles of survival of “the native people” who had been otherized by the modern educational system and the professional world. In fact, the representation of “the native people” in the series of “The lonely man hiding” shows implicitly how they face the developmentalism of the Park Chung-hee regime and are absorbed or excluded from it. The representation of “native people” is distinct from that of mainstream people. They are the lower classes of the industrialized society and are not free from the status consciousness of the pre-modern society. In other words, the “native people” are in a multi-level alienation situation. They cannot converge on the structure of capitalized wage labor and the profit-seeking system. Therefore, the job (occupation) of “the native people” is itself the same as their identity. In short, the representation of “native people” highlighted the individual existence. This is a meaningful achievement in that it is differentiated from the mainstream representation of that period.