REGION AND GEOGRAPHY ISSN:2586-1468(Online) 지역과 지리

This study aims to investigate how Literature museums, mediated by a specific writer or literary work, form an attractive placeness and manifest a unique locality. To this end, qualitative spatial analysis and language network analysis were conducted on four domestic literary spaces dedicated to the poet Yi Yuk-sa (Yi Yuk-sa Memorial Hall in Andong, Yi Yuk-sa Memorial Hall and Daegu Prison History Hall in Daegu, and Cultural Space 264 in Seoul). The analysis empirically confirmed that despite sharing the same figure of poet Yi Yuk-sa, completely different dimensions of locality emerged depending on the physical and historical context of each region. Andong expressed its locality by highlighting the poet’s literary roots and authenticity as his birthplace. Daegu manifested a locality centered on the narrative of his resistant practices during his youth and a macroscopic collective memory. Meanwhile, Seoul presented a locality that intertwined his literary peak with the daily lives of local residents. In particular, the process of overcoming the modern crisis of place loss through the active compromise of local communities suggests that establishing a Literature museum goes beyond a passive exhibition; it is a dynamic spatial practice of strategic placeness-making.