The first thing that the word “memory” brings to mind is a kind of pure, internal phenomenon of the human body. However, memory is not something that can only be explained by the body’s autonomous ability or control system, but is rather a more external issue. Jan Assmann considered that while it was the individual who had the memory, this memory was under the influence of society. Memories exist and persist in interaction. People’s memories contain not only the content exchanged during interactions, but also what is placed in the frame of collective memory. “Cultural memory” is a term increasingly used in literary studies. This paper selects the literary genre of novels characterized by fiction storytelling, elaborating on how the overseas Chinese writers revealed cultural elements in collective memory through three short Chinese literary stories serialized in the 1960s. It also shows the new relationship between these cultural elements. The purpose of this paper is to examine how these novels positively contributed to the recollection and identification of the overseas Chinese population, by using collective memory as the core transmission method. 저

본 연구는 한국 시인 백석과 아일랜드 시인 셰이머스 히니(Seamus Heaney)의 작품에서 드러나는 다양한 기억과 망각의 의미를 살펴보고 비교 분석한다. 기억과 망각이라는 주제는 독일 문화학자인 알라이다 아스만과 얀 아스만의 기억 이론을 토대로 하며, 두 시인의 작품이 각각 한국과 아일랜드 역사 속에서 어떠한 문학적 의미를 추구하고 시학을 드러내는지 짚어보며 역사적 사실, 정치적 상황 그리고 문화적 기억이 회상 그리고 망각의 틀에서 어떻게 작동하는지 비교 분석한다.