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The Poet's Ethics and Persona as Practitioner: The Korean Poetic Response to Colonialism in the 1930s
- Title
- The Poet's Ethics and Persona as Practitioner: The Korean Poetic Response to Colonialism in the 1930s
- Authors
- Kim, Jinhee
- Ewha Authors
- 김진희
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 김진희
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Journal Title
- KOREA JOURNAL
- ISSN
- 0023-3900
- Citation
- KOREA JOURNAL vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 242 - 271
- Keywords
- Jeong Ji-yong; Baek Seok; Yun Dong-ju; fascism; Japanese imperialism; aesthetic practitioner; persona; ethics of the writer; ethics of responsibility
- Publisher
- ACAD KOREAN STUDIES
- Indexed
- AHCI; SCOPUS; KCI
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Before the rise of brutal fascism in the 1930s, European authors fought to defend self-respect, and to resist fear and violence and claim the rights of conscience. Their struggle was a spiritual revolution based on human justice and the emergence of authorial ethics. The poets Jeong Ji-yong, Baek Seok, and Yun Dong-ju discussed in this article were poets who fiercely answered the ethical question of how poets should live, and what they should write as poet-intellectuals of colonial Korea. Though they could not fight physically, they countered with spiritual power the forces of irrational and inexorable fascism. Through their works, they demonstrated the aesthetic choice of presenting the human image as the subject of the artist's ethics, crossing between the West and the East, tradition and modernity, religion and culture. They performed the task given to the artist through a fictitious person, a persona, an aesthetic practitioner. The achievements of these three poets, who persistently questioned and explored the ethical meaning of poetry and the poet through their works, are clearly differentiated from their contemporaries. In addition, their choice clearly demonstrated the reality of the violent policies of imperialism facing a colony such as Korea, which differed from the anti-fascist struggle of Europe, while reestablishing the historicity of language and the literary task of colonial writers who had lost their national sovereignty.
- DOI
- 10.25024/kj.2020.60.2.242
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- 연구기관 > 이화인문과학원 > Journal papers
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