越境과 敍事 - 동아시아의 서사 체험과 ‘이웃’의 記憶- 「崔陟傳」 독법의 한 사례 -

Abstract

A Story of Choe Cheok shows the people's traumatic experiences in the transnational war of East Asia and family separations during the war through their own voices and through their own personal memories. Also, this story enlightens us with the values of life we should follow even in extreme situations. In this story, the characters went beyond family separations and war traumas with human love. This would not have been possible without warm-hearted neighbors throughout East Asia. The East Asian people represented in A Story of Choe Cheok had no attempts to alienate foreign neighbors or others. This was a new tendency other narrative literatures did not pursue. Most of all, this kind of a point of view of warm-hearted neighbors and humanity did not have any connections with the state power and ideology. Moreover, we can see a kind of a sprout of “East Asian communities” through A Story of Choe Cheok in which the messages of hope and peace were delivered to the people who suffered from the war. This is why A Story of Choe Cheok should be placed on a unique position in our narrative history. For this reason, one should not forget A Story of Choe Cheok, if imagining “East Asia” by reading premodern narratives.