증언문학에서의 서사적 재현과 환상의 역능

Abstract

Previous research on testimony literature including novels that reproduce the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese military has tended to rely on the aesthetics of conventional realism. The novels on the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese military this study focuses on, however, reveal different aspects from the previous reproduction of reality like the imitation of reality. This study intensively analyzes noteworthy texts out of the works that have been released up to now after the 1980’s, for instance, Yun Jeong-mo, Nora Okja Keller, Go Hye-jeong, and Kim Sum’s novels. The novels on the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese military as testimony literature employ the technique of ‘fantasy’ in order to obtain reality and contain aesthetic autonomy in them. Also, such borrowing of ‘fantasy’ shows paradoxically that pain is indescribable. Moreover, those novels not just remaining in the representation of historical pain seek to heal trauma caused by pain from an ecofeminist perspective and pursue the narrative of salvation for the sake of survival.