Recognition of the Impaired Subject: Hwang Suk-young’s The Shadow of ArmsRecognition of the Impaired Subject: Hwang Suk-young’s The Shadow of Arms
- Other Titles
- Recognition of the Impaired Subject: Hwang Suk-young’s The Shadow of Arms
- Authors
- 오세인
- Issue Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- 한국학중앙연구원 한국학중앙연구원
- Keywords
- Hwang Suk-young; “The Shadow of Arms; ” memory; impaired
subject; other; Vietnam War; disgrace; commodification
- Citation
- The Review of Korean Studies, v.11, no.1, pp.119 - 134
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- The Review of Korean Studies
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 119
- End Page
- 134
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/125235
- DOI
- 10.25024/review.2008.11.1.006
- ISSN
- 1229-0076
- Abstract
- Korean novels on the Vietnam War attempt to heal the wounds of Korean soldiers
while omitting the life and wounds of the Vietnamese. The reason why
they fail to reveal the true nature of the Vietnam War or avoid doing so is
because the nation forced them to do so and also because the mechanism of
self-censorship was too strong. Against the collective memory that was distorted
and controlled by the state, Hwang Suk-young revives the hidden memory
of the war and reveals the fact that the Korean Army was dispatched to
Vietnam so that Korea would receive economic aid from the United States of
America.
The literary achievement of The Shadow of the Arms is that it locates the
Vietnamese in the place of the subject by recording their lives of fighting for
survival during the war. In contrast, he places the Korean Army as the other
and highlights the immorality of participating in the Vietnam War. When we
disclose the fact that ‘Liberty’s Crusade’ was a fraud, then we can dream about
the possibility of reconciling with the Vietnamese.
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