세계화와 문학 세계문학, 국민.민족문학, 지역문학 = Globalization and Literature: World Literature, National Literature, Regional Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

What has been called `a Goethean-Marxian projec1 of world literature is an attempt to create, through increased exchanges and communication among writers and intellectuals of different nations, a literature more adequately responding to the globalizing world, yet without sacrificing literary value, which is inevitably tied to a specific national or local language and thus to a national situation. But the current trend seems inimical to such, a project. Korea`s `national literature movement` has been an exception, although whether actual performance matches aspirations would require a separate scrutiny. Pascale Casanova`s The World Republic of Letters has the merit of basically espousing the Goethean-Marxian notion and carrying it further by analyzing the unequal structure of the global literary market. However, despite her laudable intention of pr viding a critical weapon in the service of all deprived and dominated writers on the periphery, her book at some points reinforces that structure by exaggerating the extent to which the literary world has actually become global and by overvaluing `modernity` as understood by European modernism. A more adequate response to modernity seems the `double project` of at once adapting to and overcoming capitalist modernity as such, which represents an important agenda in the critical discourse and artistic production of today`s Korea. The formation of `East Asian regional literature` would serve not only [0 strength n the position of East Asian writers within the given international literary market, but to open the way to a more diverse and equitable, as well as more truly globalized, literary space. `East Asia` in this context would include those nations (mainly China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea) sharing civilizational legacies, including abundant `literary capital` in the once common written language, classical Chinese, and the advantage of belong to a particularly dynamic region in today`s global economy. The danger of East Asian literature`s becoming a closed space on its own is precluded by the very conception of such regional literature as a part of the `Goethean-Marxian project`; and a true `world republic of letters` it will help to create would look more like a multipolar `association of republics` than a unitary state dominated by a single capital city.