남북 아동문학사의 잊힌 한 공간: 개성 지역 아동문학가 현동염의 활동과 작품 연구

Abstract

This study examines and analyzes the life and world of works of Hyun Dong-yeom, a children’s literature writer in Kaesong during the Japanese colonial era. Hyeon Dong-yeom is a children’s literature writer who started his work around 1927 and showed various activities in the field of children’s literature, from children’s songs to children’s stories, children’s novels, and children’s literature reviews. He began his work in 1927 by releasing the children’s poem “Squirrel” in Maeil Newspaper(매일신보). Based on the “Young Literary Artist(소년문예사)”, he grew into a juvenile literary writer, and in 1929, the fairy tale “The Gift of Tears” was elected and made its name known in the literary circle. Also, he left a collection of children’s poems “The Chestnut Brothers”(the Alambam Brothers, 알알밤형제). So far, the number of children’s literature works by Hyun Dong-yeom has been put at 39 by researchers. There are 32 children’s poem, three fairy tales, one boys’ novel, and three children’s literature reviews and others. The early nursery rhymes of Hyun Dong-yeom are based on almost 7·5 trillion rhymes. All 23 simultaneous films published for four years from 1927 to 1930 before liberation are standardized. In particular, his children’s poem collection “The Alambam Brothers” expresses the family and brotherhood that do not lose hope even in poverty, the simple nature scene, and the children’s wild imagination and curiosity. In addition, he wrote fairy tale novels for boys reflecting class consciousness in the 1930s, but after 1945(liberation), he changed to a satirical righteous fairy tale. The dates of his birth and death are unclear. Hyun is estimated to have been born in 1914 and to have died during the Korean War between 1950 and 1953.