김설원 소설의 모빌리티 재현과 로컬리즘의 표상 - 『내게는 홍시뿐이야』를 중심으로 = A Study on Reproduction of Mobility and Localism in Kim Seol-won’s Novel ─ focusing on 『I only have Persimmons』

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines the significance of Kim Seol-won’s novel “I Only Have Persimmons” from the perspective of “mobility” by focusing on the fact that the fluidity of global capital has a significant impact on the changes in local space. The novel is a narrative of growth, and depicts the process in which the actor grows into a member of society through experiencing multiple spaces. At this time, each space demands the recognition of “locality” based on the local. The actor’s mobility is presented as the cause of the collapse of regional industries, but it is ultimately intertwined with the flow of transnational capital, summoning the real problems of a national industrial crisis, regional polarization, and an era of local extinction that are vulnerable to the global economic environment. “Globality” is an unavoidable environment and a given future. The vulnerable classes of relatively marginalized countries and marginalized regions have no choice but to wander in order to survive. “Mobility” is characterized by involuntary actions and the desire to settle down somewhere, and while it conflicts with sedentarism in terms of semantic system, it also reveals its orientation. The intention to newly recognize the complex interaction between mobility and locality inherent in Kim Seol-won's novels is due to the judgment that literature can serve as a focal point in overcoming the vulnerability of the global environment.