청년 대중서로 본 동시대 청년 담론의 전개 양상

This study intends to trace the construction of major discourses and topics in the popular young adult non-fictions that have attracted the attention of young readers by directly addressing the youth-related issues since the publication of The 880,000 won Generation in the late 2000s. this study is methodologically based upon a qualitative study and meta-analytic study, by which it would read discursive characteristics and their paradigmatic relation of the popular young adult non-fictions published on the market over the past decade. This article notes that the young adult essays synchronize themselves as a significant medium to read how to form young people’s ‘subjectivity’, while young people themselves appear as the subjects of both consumption and production of discourses. For an analysis, this study periodically divides a structure of the discourses in order to debunk the characteristic and changing points of contemporary youth discourses. In this study, although the repetition and reproduction of the ‘mainstream’ discourses are largely placed in the process of forming the youth discourse in each period, there has also been the formation of ‘counter-discourse’ against them. Specifically, we pursue the changing patterns in youth discourses as to how the discourse of young people’s ‘healing’ and ‘mentor’ fever has been finally led to the emergent discourse of independence and autonomy of youth. The conclusive remark intends to draw out the practical implications from the recent tendency of youth self-reliance and autonomy shown in the domestic book publishers.