Redevelopment Mobility Dispositif, the Gwangju Complex Incident, and The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore the interrelationship between mobility and unequal power relations by analyzing the Gwangju Complex Incident, which was centered on the placeness of Seongnam, in the framework of a mobility dispositif. When we confine the center of meaning to a place, we are apt to pass the heart of events. Mobility is another foundation of existence that is no less than a place. Like place mobility produces a meaning, and a meaning affects a representation. And this representation again affects the interpretation of a meaning. Yoon Heung-gil’s The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes, the most wellknown among the literary representations that embody the Gwangju Complex Incident, organized the incident into a literary text and gave the incident a narrative. Therefore, this novel can be said to be another actor who has had a great influence on the way of understanding the Gwangju Complex Incident. Above all, The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes is a novel that exquisitely captures the multi-layered mobility dispositif of the Gwangju Complex Incident. The unequal power relations and multilayered elements lying on the horizon of the Gwangju Grand Complex incident are refered to as as redevelopment mobility dispositif. The analysis of The Man Left as Nine Pairs of Shoes reveals a contingent necessity of the Gwangju Complex Incident by illuminating the interrelationship between mobility and power.