Topophilia in Lee Tae-jun's work is the place of restoration of sovereignty that all Koreans who were colonized aspire to. His desire to return to this place and his will to recover from the other to the subject is hidden in his literature, providing ...
Topophilia in Lee Tae-jun's work is the place of restoration of sovereignty that all Koreans who were colonized aspire to. His desire to return to this place and his will to recover from the other to the subject is hidden in his literature, providing readers with a 'literary topophilia'.
In Lee Tae-jun's works "Spring", "Planting Flower Trees", and "Stone Bridge", the main characters are farmers, revealing specific places (hometown, village, farmland, and house) that form the basis of their identity, but "hometown" and "pegangnaeng" The two characters of ' are intellectuals of the city, but through the uprooting of the loss of the motherland, they do not have a concrete topophilia as the people around them. However, this lack of topophilia drives the desire to restore the sovereignty of the motherland. "Spring", "Planting a flower tree", and "Stone Bridge" recover topophilia through the relocation to an actual place "hometown" and "Pegangnaeng" through the political situation of restoring the sovereignty of the motherland. want to do It can be said to be a search for a place for the actual restoration of the land and the restoration of sovereignty.
The fact that humans have their own place and that there is a topophilia makes us aware of our existence. The lack of topophilia due to the circumstances of the times drives the desire to recover subjectivity. We are living in an era of selfish and egocentric thinking that gradually loses our existence in the material civilization and capitalist market economy system. A study on the topophilia and other ethics of Lee Tae-Jun's work in the present age will be the best answer to the question of our existence.