Between ‘minjung’ and ‘literature’: Korean labor poetry and reportage literature in the 1980s

• Authors: Nahyun Kim

Title variants

PL

Między ‘narodem’ a ‘literaturą’: koreańska poezja robotnicza i literatura reportażu w latach 80. wieku XX

Abstracts

PL

Niniejszy artykuł zwraca uwagę na trzy książki, które symbolicznie rysują nowy kierunek w 'literaturze narodowej' w latach 80. wieku XX. Tomik poezji robotniczej Park No-hae zatytułowany Świt pracy zyskał popularność już z chwilą ukazania się – była to poezja napisana przez rzeczywistego przedstawiciela narodu, który ukrył swoją robotniczą tożsamość za maską bezimiennego poety. Lakonicznie zapisane wspomnienia Song Hyo-soon, zatytułowane Droga do Seulu, odnotowują nędzne realia pracy w fabrykach. Kraj i naród Park Tae-soona to przykład literatury reporterskiej, która opisuje jego podróże po kraju. Pokazuje on, że historia 'narodu' istnieje w kraju namacalnie i zaświadcza o tym, że kraj należy do 'narodu'. Te trzy dzieła przybliżają sposób, w jaki 'literatura narodowa' lat 80. wieku XX świadczyła o 'narodzie'. Troska o to, jak opisać i odzwierciedlić 'naród' ukazuje myśli zarówno o 'narodzie', jak i o 'literaturze'. Świadectwa 'narodu' ujęte w różnych stylach literackich sprawiają, że czytelnicy zadają sobie pytanie o to, czym jest 'literatura'. Poezja 'narodowa' i reportaż lat 80. minionego wieku mogą udzielić na te pytania odpowiedzi.

EN

This paper reviews three books which symbolically represent a new direction in ‘minjung literature’ in the 1980s. Labor poet Park No-hae (박노해)’s collection of poems, Dawn of Labor (노동의 새벽), was popular when it was published because it was literature in the form of poetry written by a real member of the minjung who kept his identity as a worker secret by becoming a faceless poet. Song Hyo-soon (송효순)’s memoir, Road to Seoul (서울로 가는 길) records the miserable reality of factories as the subaltern writing. Park Tae-soon (박태순)’s The Land and the Minjung (국토와 민중) was reportage (reporting) literature that records his travels around the country. He shows that the history of ‘minjung’ physically exists within the country and testifies that the land was owned by the ‘minjung’. These three books reflect how ‘minjung literature’ in the 1980s testified to the ‘minjung’. Concern about how to describe and represent the ‘minjung’ shows thoughts about both the ‘minjung’ and literature. The ‘minjung’ testimonies written in a variety of literary styles cause readers to ask themselves what literature is. ‘Minjung’ poetry poetry and reportage in the 1980s can help answer this question.

Keywords

PL

naród; literatura narodowa; literatura robotnicza; poezja narodowa; wspomnienia robotników; literatura reportażu; zapiski podróżnicze; Park No-ha; Song Hyo-soon

EN

minjung; minjung literature; labor literature; minjung poetry; labor memoir; reportage literature; travel writing; Park No-hae; Song Hyo-soon; Park Tae-soon

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: International Journal of Korean Humanities and Social Sciences
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 25-41

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Nahyun Kim

• Yonsei University

• https://orcid.org/0000000211034746

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/kr.2022.08.02

Biblioteka Nauki

28682963