문학적 ‘통이(通異)’와 문학사적 통합 -북한문학 연구의 존재 증명-

Abstract

The study on North Korean literature has been delayed since the inauguration of conservative government in 2008. The stagnation in the study is caused not only by the objective reason, or the change of objective political situation, but also by the subjective reason, or the absence of methodological progress or new agenda. This Study arranged the position and issue of North Korean literature with a sense of problem, ‘the crisis of the study could be just the crisis of researcher.’ The current relation between the two Koreas is under the situation that they pass the responsibility for the conflict between them to another, through the strategy of ‘vicious indifference’ without the philosophy on unification or the concrete process. Pyeongyang government is trying to unify the people under one ideology, through strengthening wholly ‘chieftain literature’ for individual worship towards Kim Il-seong and Kim Jeong-il and ‘military-first (revolutionary) literature’. Despite making efforts to make ‘Juche Literature’ universal, no wonder North Korean literature was produced by the politically compulsive idea to keep the regime from the crisis. However, it is thought as more important to come back to realism literature, such as Hwang Jin-yi, to organize ‘The 615 Association of Writers for Korean National Literature’ and to publicize a government agency-running magazine Unification Literature.