한국·미국·베트남의 베트남전쟁 소설 연구: 부르디외의 ‘장’과 ‘아비투스’ 이론을 적용하여

A Study on Vietnam War Novels of Korean, American, and Vietnamese Writers: Based on Bourdieu’s Theory on ‘Field’ and ‘Habitus.’

This study analyzes the relation between ‘war space’ and soldiers’ actions depicted in Vietnam War novels, employing Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘field’ and ‘habitus.’ According to Bourdieu, field is a structured social space with its own rules and it is relatively autonomous from the wider social structure in which people relate and struggle through a complex of connected social relations. Whereas, habitus is a system of acquired, generative dispositions functioning on a practical level as perception and assessment, as well as the organization of action. The Distant Songba River by Korean writer, Park Young-han, Going after Cacciato by American writer, Tim O’Brien, and Novel without a Name by Vietnamese writer, Du’o’ng Thu Hu’o’n, deal with the same Vietnam War, but in these novels the same war varies dramatically from one another. In this regard, the effect of field upon soldiers’ actions, and the implication of spatial actions can be examined. Ultimately, these Vietnam War novels describe the ambivalent but creative power of war discourse shared both by the concepts of field and habitus.