1930년대 농촌진흥운동과 농민소설의 텍스트화 양상

Abstract

This study examined “Seohwa” by Kiyeong Lee and “Mopeom Kyeongjaksaeng” by Yeongjun Park, which textualizes Rural Revitalization Campaign(RRC), focusing on the co-relationship between Japanese assimilation policies and Korean modern literature. I intended to explore how the policies of Government General of Korea(GGK) were enforced and what a literary response the farmers or writers made to them. The above two novels are almost a textualiztion of RRC, as most of the narrations are constructed to the details of RRC. We can find out in “Seohwa” that the birth of Tolsoe, a healthy peasant agent, is closely related to the process of spontaneous problem solving as a qualification for a Mopeom Purak and that its characters and plot are based on the details of RRC. Likewise, “Mopeom Kyeongjaksaeng” is a text woven together with the responses of the peasants to RRC, especially policies of ‘guidance of graduates’, training leading figures. The above two works creates the character of Tolsoe and Gilseo respectively. We can understand that the direction of peasant movement is set through the real basis of RRC in creating a positive character, Tolsoe. On the other hand, we can recognize the fictitiousness of RRC through a negative character, Gilseo, and the Japanese ruling policies over Korean rural community.