The Decontextualization and Recontextualization of Christian Elements in the Korean peninsula: from Francis Jammes to Yoon Dongju

Title

The Decontextualization and Recontextualization of Christian Elements in the Korean peninsula: from Francis Jammes to Yoon Dongju

Author

Si-jin HE

Page

29-58

DOI

10.6163/TJEAS.202306_20(1).0002

Abstract

Yoon Dongju was the only one who continued Korean literature during the Japanese occupation period. His works were influenced by the French poet Francis Jammes. Yoon learned and imitated Jammes's poems by reading Japanese translations by Miyoshi Tatsuji and Korean poet Baek Sok's works. However, Yoon only described the pastoral scenery, donkeys, and other animal and plants similar to Jammes's, but his religious views are fundamentally different from Jammes's. The sins in Yoon's poems are not a universal experience of human nature, but a product of historical context. It does not completely refer to an individual's sin but has a group base. The sense of shame in Yoon's poems comes down in one continuous line with a sense of hate (han 한), which is a Korean collective unconsciousness, including resistance to Japanese occupation and the grief of losing homeland. Therefore, the formation process of Yoon's poems reflects the decontextualization and recontextualization of Christian elements in the Korean peninsula.

Keyword

Yoon Dongju, Francis Jammes, Christian poems, Han

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