1920년대 『별나라』의 위상 - 남북한 주류의 아동문학사 인식 비판 -

Abstract

The conventional study on the children’s literature during the colonial period classified it as nationalistic, classist and conciliatory inclinations represented by Eorinyi, Byulnara and Shinsonyun respectively. The binary opposition and trisected classification was dominant in understanding the history of children’s literature in North and South Korea as the tendency of the Cold War era was applied to understanding the colonial period. The reality differed from the conventional understanding. Eorinyi was open to the left party. The early Byulnara embraced the innocence-angelism and aspired the direction of Eorinyi. Starting as a literary coterie magazine of those writers with lesser tendency towards literary accomplishment, social movement and ideology, Byulnara was the cheapest of all and collaborated with the rightest party, National Literature Party, in order to improve the magazine’s status. In summary, until the late 1920’s Eorinyi, Byulnara and Shinsonyun were closely cooperating. When the desire for recognition shared by the writers of Byulnara was mixed with the KAPF movement, the transformation of Byulnara was started. However, the peak of classism led by more radical younger members was confined in the early 1930’s. After that point the cooperation between left and right parties was resumed and in this vein the Chosun Writers’ Alliance was established. However, its objectives could not be fulfilled due to the increased suppression by the North and South Korean governments under the Cold War order. Therefore, the conventional understanding dominated by binary opposition and trisected classification should be dismissed as it resulted from the division of Korean nation and further promoted the ideology that supported it.