혁명의 기록과 서발터니티의 흔적

Abstract

Precedent study of the relationship between 4·19 and Korean literature is converged on the level of formalities summarized by the birth of ‘new sensibility’ and subject consciousness by ‘participatory literary theory’. Despite the accomplishments of these study tendency, there is a limit to delimitate 4·19's subjects to intellectual-elite groups in common. As a result, the subaltern group has been excluded from literary studies despite being an important subject of 4·19. On the other hand, ‘Subversion reading’ on the texts of 4·19 was able to restore the voices of the subalterns left as ‘traces’ in the text. Specifically, in the texts such as Oh Sangwon and Kwak Haksong, the subaltern is exposed to the existence of a crack in the conceptual 4·19 narrative composed mainly of students. In the texts such as Shin Sangwoong, the subaltern's unique knowledge and production- distribution mechanism is standout. Especially, the informal form of discourse including rumors is remarkable. In the texts of Park Taesoon, the perception of the subaltern revolution appears. For the subaltern, the revolution is perceived as a carnival, that it has the potential to extend the 4·19 to a revolution on the cultural level, not just on the political level. In this way, it is expected that the reconstruction of the subalternity around 4·19 will provide an opportunity to overcome the limits of precedent study from the view point of the elitism.