김우철 시 평가 양상을 통해 본 북한 문학사 서술 변화 -‘평화적 민주건설 시기’~‘전후복구건설 및 사회주의 기초건설 시기’를 중심으로-

Abstract

It is well known that the literary history of North Korea was devisedalong with establishment of the North Korean regime. There has beennarrative change in North Korean literary history throughout the landreform and the democratic revolution in 1946, establishment of theDemocratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948, Korea-Soviet Union andinternationalism friendship in 1949, the anti-sectarian struggle from 1953to 1956, criticism against schematism in 1956, the completion of socialismreconstruction in 1958, the fight against remnants of bourgeois in 1959,and the anti-sectarian fight in 1967. The narrative change had been anindispensable one "in the process of framing narration of nationalliberation led by its leader, Kim, Il-Sung."This thesis is to review Woo-cheol Kim's poems in five kinds of NorthKorean Literary History published from 1950 to the 1990s to see thenarrative change of North Korean literary history throughout regimechange. Woo-cheol Kim's poems were classified into those only in the1959 version, others from the 1978 version, and the others in all versions. As a result, the characteristics of narrative change of North Koreanliterary history is as follows: First, the narrative change in the 1959 version highlighted the theme of Korea-Soviet Union and internationalismfriendship, and literary works with criticism and satire were relativelyfreely evaluated as there was criticism against schematism tendency atthat time. Second, the characteristics of narration appeared from the 1978version was that the themes of praise of its leader and revolution againstJapan were emphasized as the Juche literary theory was formulated. Third, the common narrative characteristics in all versions of NorthKorean literary history was that the implications of land reform andfiguration of leader became important at a greater and lesser extent. As such, there were changes of highlights and evaluation of NorthKorean literary narration between 1959 and 1978 versions. If the 1959version of literary history had contributed to establishment of KAPFliterature as the tradition of North Korean literature based onMarxism-Leninism method, the literary history from the 1978 versionwas to make anti-Japan revolution literature the tradition based on theJuche method.