코리아 문학 통일과 디아스포라 담론의 욕망― 연변 문예지의 매체사적 쟁점

Abstract

This article aims to analyze media historical issues of Chinese ethnic Korean literature magazines in Yanbian area. Through this, it will reflect on the legitimacy of the “unification” agenda of literature between the two Koreas and examine whether the “diaspora literature” discourse is free from the desire to expand the territory of Korean literature. As an alternative to this reflection, we propose inter-Korean equal communication of the Korean diaspora and “Koreanphone” literature. With this awareness, we analyzed media historical issues in the literary magazines Yŏnbyŏn munye(Yanbian Literature and Art, 1951), Ch’ŏnji(Heaven and Earth, 1985) and Yŏnbyŏn munhak(Yanbian Literature, 1998). It also explored the ethnological identity of Chinese ethnic Korean literature by analyzing the media historical issues of the magazine’s media contents cross-sectionally. As a result, Yanbian’s literary magazine started out as a socialist propaganda media, but it could be seen that Yanbian’s cultural heritage culture, ethnic Koreans’ literary identity, and foreign relations changed from pro-North Korea to pro-South Korea. The identity of Yanbian literature magazine serves as a window for cultural “communication” of “Chinese-North-South Korea” on the basic premise of the Chinese authorities’ policy propaganda, but the most important thing is the literary identity of the Chinese ethnic Koreans. A good example is the controversy over the North Korea’s revolutionary opera “Blood Sea(피바다)” created by Kim Il-sung and the amateur play script “Song of Blood(혈해지창)” by the Crow(pen-name) in the Yŏnbyŏn munhak(1959). Ignoring this fact and trying to integrate Chinese ethnic Korean literature as a medium for unification of inter-Korean literature or as part of overseas Korean diaspora literature discourse are a kind of Seoul centralism’s desire, so self-reflection is essential.