판소리 문학 속 공동체 돌봄의 양상에 대한 비판적 고찰 - <심청전>과 <흥부전>을 중심으로

Abstract

The discourse of care has developed in the West since the 1980s, but discussions of care have become active in many fields globally since the COVID-19 pandemic in the early 2020s. This study explores how research on Korean classical literature can contribute to multidisciplinary discussions related to care by examining Simcheongjeon and Heungbujeon with a focus on "community care" in pansori literature. For this purpose, this study examines the concept and significance of community care and analyzes its practice and limitations in Simcheongjeon and Heungbujeon. It then discusses the contemporary implications of the incomplete community care depicted in these two texts. Community care is a form of care in which people belonging to a community become the subject of giving and receiving cares based on their mutual bonds. It is located between "private care" and "public care" and concerns an area of alternative care that does not fully lean on either of these. In Simcheongjeon, the people of Dohwadong and Jang Seungsang's wife take care of Simcheong and her father. In Heungbujeon, Heungbu takes care of his neighbors. However, their practice of community care has many shortcomings in light of today's concept of community care, which focuses on the community's mutual consensus on the content and method of care. This analysis thus allows us to derive the requirements to fully realize the true meaning of community care. Currently, community care in Korean society is not sufficiently activated in conjunction with the problems of centralization of the metropolitan area and the disappearance of local communities. This study is meaningful in that it presents a more microscopic and critical view of caring practices in pansori literature and affords us an opportunity to reflect on the care crisis we currently face.