김남조 시에 나타난 생태주의적 상상력 연구 = A Study on Ecological Imagination in Nam-jo Kim’s Poetry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study begins with the aim of examining the poetic world of Nam-jo Kim from an ecological perspective. Nam-jo Kim’s poems keep distance from traditional ecological poetry, which seeks mystification or union with nature, and from critical ecological poetry, whose main focus is criticism of the environmental crisis. She develops ecological imagination in her own way and shows different ecological thoughts according to the course of Korean history.
In <Life>, produced during the Korean War, Nam-jo Kim focuses on subjects that share a diachronic view of time within Earth’s space. The senseless destructiveness of the war about them broadens the category of living things and leads to a sense of crisis about the end of the world.
This way of thinking is transformed to plan restoration of nature-human solidarity during the industrialization period of the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. The restoration of solidarity intends to reconciliation between nature and human, and it focuses on ecological dynamics. From the end of the 1980s, when environmental pollution intensified and ecological discourse began in earnest, nature is embodied a substantial personality in Nam-jo Kim’s poems. Such nature coexists with human being and forms a family community.
Nam-jo Kim’s ecological thought is important in that it is not limited to traditional ecological poetry nor critical ecological poetry. However, her thought contains limit because she was essentially unable to achieve the transformation of perspectives that ecological discourse requires.