지역문학의 탈식민성과 글로컬리즘 - 대전-충남 문학을 중심으로

Postcoloniality of regional literature and gloculism

&nbsp;&nbsp;Otherness is central to regional literature. The Western culture dominates all cultural relations. Regional literature is no exemption to these relations, so it may be said that a regional literature shows the otherness of other. Korean literature, a third world literature, can be defined as the other of the Western culture, which places Korean literature as regional. This conception of "the otherness of other," however, implies a paradoxical alternative to overcome the otherness. The uniqueness a regional literature has becomes its own literary characteristic, which interchanges it with other regional literatures at home and abroad.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The minority peculiarity regional literature shows has a practical value to enrich the regional literature. Any regional literature is the minority one in that it deterritorializes the central, politically resists the central, and collectively embodies the identity of the national literature. To be a minority literature, a regional literature needs to seek its own nativeness and world view. Actual agents of a regional literature should keep in mind that the most regional is the most global.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The literature of the Daejeon-Chungnam region needs to aim at postcoloniality and gloculism. This intention leads the literary people of the region to do their practices in various ways: to develop the literary legacy of Baekje, to find the patterns of everyday life and geographical features corresponding to zones of life, to contrive cultural contents by using much information of Daejeon as a science city, to make full use of Hallyu to globalize the literature of the Daejeon-Chungnam region, and to train and educate younger literary men for the future.