이 연구는 동시대 비엔날레 전시와 담론의 실천적 사례를 통한 예술의 사건성에 주목한다. 전 지구적 생태 환경 파괴의 대안을 찾는 ‘글로벌 담론’의 미술과 제주도라는 현실의 ‘사건과 장소성’이 만나는 제 3 회 제주비엔날레가 연구의 대상이다. 제주도는 한반도 남단에 위치한 자연 생태 환경과 ‘4.3’의 비극적 역사 경험의 장소로 기후위기는 곧 생존과 직결된다. 코로나 19 로 팬데믹을 경험한 세계가 이에 대한 진단과 대안을 찾는 시점에서 제주도의 삼성혈부터 가파도에 이르는 구체적인 장소 6 곳에서 전지구적 현실을 사유하고 경험하게 하였다. 이것이 제 3 회 제주비엔날레의 ‘글로벌 담론과 로컬 정체성의 횡단’의 과정이다. 비엔날레의 주제인 “움직이는 달, 다가서는 땅”은 동시대 기후위기로부터 자연의 생동과 인간/비인간의 행성적, 물질적 연대를 주장하고 있다. 비엔날레 전시는 예술가들의 ‘유목적 정주와 로컬의 장소성’, ‘횡단의 실천이 곧 로컬의 공동체 그리고 환경의 협업’으로 이루어지는 과정임을 보여준다. 동시대성을 이루는 글로벌 담론은 로컬의 현실과의 끊임없는 접목과 중첩의 사유를 통해 의미가 풍요로워지며 이것이 비엔날레가 로컬과 더 깊게 관계맺기를 시도해야 하는 이유이다. 결론적으로 제 3 회 제주비엔날레는 기후위기라는 글로벌 담론의 예술적 실천으로 동시대 비엔날레의 사회적 역할과 의미를 사유하는 기회를 제공한다.
This paper examines the ways in which Yeats constructs and idealizes his Anglo-Irish Identity. After bitter disputes over Synge's plays he realized the insoluble opposition between the Irish Catholic and the Anglo-Irish, which meant his failure to unify Ireland through his Celtic Romanticism. He needed to make a new poetics to justify his predicament and to form a new identity. He creates, in his essays and poems, the identity and tradition of the Anglo-Irish from Burke through Swift, Goldsmith, Parnell to Synge and Yeats, the intellectuals who tried to
enlighten the native Irish people only to fail and be isolated from them. According to Yeats, the reason the Anglo-Irish intellectuals had to meet the same fate in Ireland is due to the ignorance and sectarian hate of native Catholic Irish people.
Although the Anglo-Irish always become victims, their defeat is considered by Yeats to be inescapable and even worthier than success in the reality where ignorance prevails. This is the discourse of tragic heroism.
Yeats constructed the identity that is based on the dichotomy between the few Anglo-Irish and the Irish people, by which he attributes culture to the one, and nature to the other. Here culture is supposed to be superior to nature and that sense of superiority rests on the ability to culturalize nature. Yeats connected the culture with breeding which means being cultivated by discipline and education. In writing, it was through his poetics of mask, what he called “the sense of style,” that he could overcome his rage and hate to the mass and futhermore transform them to
the higher virtues such as reason, manners and beauty.
As the poems dealing with the Anglo-Irish big house and the Thoor Ballylee show, in their tradition what they have inherited is a heroic spirit of overcoming and transforming the adversity each generation has faced. Some critics have asserted Yeats shows de-mystifying recognition when he reveals his ancestors' illicit and unjust violence to the native Irish in the past. But we have to note that it finally leads to justifying his Anglo-Irish violence, for he thought it had been transformed by their overcoming spirit and efforts into order and culture whereas the violence of
the Irish mass resulted into disorder and chaos.
David Lloyd's opinion needs to be reconsidered in this regard. He praised Yeats's de-mystifying insights in some later poems and asserted, borrowing Paul de Man's terms, his writing is allegorical rather than symbolic. But in the poems he cited Yeats seems to be more interested in heroicizing and idealizing his Anglo-Irish identity and tradition. Yeats's Anglo-Irish identity should be understood as an response to the changed reality and is formed by his peculiar writing or representation.
This paper is trying to read the text with the current theory decolonialism. To this, The writer adopted the text Seamus Heaney's early poetry Death of a Naturalist. Seamus Heaney is known to be the most important poet since W. B. Yeats as a winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. I assume that a growing interest among readers reflects this prevailing enthusiasm for his work. His method and idea owe more to decolonial attitude more than that of naturalist or romantist. This seems to be an attractive factor to draw a reader's attention. In fact, his poetry has the proper qualities to absorb the devotees of 'decolonialism' still dominant in dealing with the poetry. Decolonialism as a literary theory is becoming an influential textual strategy rather than remaining as one of the academic master discourse. So far, the established textual reading theories have been closely related to logocentrism, and they failed to be acknowledge as objective way of reading. For this reason, the decolonialism has an important implication in the sense that it subverts the colonial ideology within the context of colonized society, and at the same time, reconstructs counter-discourse to find out self-identity and decolonized space. Meanwhile, Heaney have been witnessed historical moments of the death of his mother land, Ireland as well as of the Irish people, as the history of Ireland manifests. In doing so, the Irish people broke the cycle of imperial situation. The consciousness of them became consciousness of the nation. By way of this historical experience of authentic decolonization, Heaney's aesthetics became, more and more, politicized against the crisis which the repressive force of imperialism caused to occur. Under this traumatic disasters of Ireland, Heaney's poetic quest makes him and practical struggle against the colonial power in a poetic way. The main subject of his poetry is to find out his Irish identity with the past tradition and its continuity. The subject is linked with the question to find out the Celtic identity between the past and the present which is dominated by colonialism. To regard this, this paper analyses Heaney's text focusing on the decolonialism expressed by his poetry. I try to examine the process of his poetic writings and its attitude against English colonialism. To do this, My major interest is in his Celtic myth and language employed in his poetry. And I attempt to search for the true Irishness which Heaney makes every effort to materialize the reality of Ireland in his poetry. To conclude, the decolonial discourse and its textual strategy has an tactics and also has an important implications that lay bare the dominant ideology hidden by the seemingly impersonal intention of colonialism.