記憶의 敍事敎育的 含意

On the Educational Implication of the Memory and Narrative - Yu Mi-ri's The Other Side of August -

Yu Mi-ri(柳美里) is a Korean Japanese writer who lives in Japan but uses her own Korean name. Her novel, The Other Side of August depicts identity of herself and her family as diaspora through memory. The Other Side of August, from the Japanese colonial period to the present days follows the story of her grandfather, Yi Woochul(aka Yang Yim'deuk) who was from Milyang and went to Japan. I can tell this novel an experimental writing because it narrates experiences and memory of herself and her family and other people by the agency of marathon and Gut(shamanist ritual) as each was related with physical and spiritual arena. In some aspects, The Order Side of August has educational implication about the ways of memory and the narratives very well. First, Yu Mi-ri reveals historical memory of Korean Japanese, showing her own name and her identity as personification of diaspora. Secondly, even if it is only individual's memory, it is also social memory because memory about historical experiences and traumas generally need the existence of others. Thirdly, memory and narrative can revive the lives the outsiders and the peripheral beings whose existence does not appear in historical records. In short, memory is the passage for understanding 'herself' and 'world' and also, the source of her narratives in the process of creating her own world.