민족 해방에 대한 열망과 탈식민․탈주체로서의 저항문학 － 한설야의 『력사』와 「아버지와 아들」을 중심으로 －

Abstract

North Korea has established national literatures based on anti imperialism and semi-feudalism, and the socialistic literatures on which North Korean literatures have put emphasis. In 1960s, however North Korea went through the hardships, internal colonization age when Kim il-sung was idolized. At that time the field of North Korean literatures was in a transition period marked by moving on to the literary world for admiring Kim il-sung Juche ideology widely. The North Korean literary circles have strived hard to make revolutionary literatures for anti-Japanese movements the North Korean traditional literatures. Eventually, having been at the center of the tradition of KAPF(Korea Artista Proleta Federatio) literatures, Han seol-ya was degraded to an intellectual who lived under the Japanese colonial rule. A tense atmosphere could be felt on the relationships between the author’s view on ‘An ethnic community’ and ‘national literatures’ and the view from the ruling communist party. The ruling communist party intended to make revolutionary literatures for anti-Japanese movements the only tradition of North Korean literatures and tried to make the belief that anti-Japanese revolution fight was at the core of history of them. This research has the primary goal to analysis The father and the son, a sequel to the The history that was serialized in Joseon Literature from April to August in 1953. It is found that the author was believed to reflect the spirit of the age in The history. Later, however she had a misfortune to be considered as an outcast who went against the current of the times in The father and the son, even though The father and the son was the continuation of The history. Even though The history marked by decolonization of the Korean peninsula and The father and the son characterized by shedding Juche Ideology of militant nationalism have their own characteristics, they were seriously affected by the trend of the times based on the society and politics. This resulted in the case that two novels written by the same author did not receive comparable reviews; one was highly praised but the other was undervalued depending on the phase of the times. The father and the son written at the end of her career reveals the aspiration for national liberation and the urgent crisis of the author who is at the marginal groups in the field of literatures. In conclusion, the root of works written by Han seol-ya lies at the liberation of the oppressed nation. It is the resistance literature as decolonization and shedding Juche Ideology of militant nationalism that the author tried to pursue.