강노향의 상해 체험 문학 연구

Abstract

As one of the Korean writers who resided in Shanghai during the period of Japanese Colonialism, No-hyang Kang spent most of his time in Shanghai during 1930s and 1940s. No-hyang Kang's literature about Shanghai experience was created mainly based on his experience in the 1930s. In the 1930s, there were more ordinary Koreans living in Shanghai than the patriots who were planning the independence movement. They are mostly normal individuals who were busy sustaining their passive lives with no interest in politics or revolution at all. Drawing the image of Koreans in Shanghai, however, based on actual experience of the life in Shanghai during the period of Japanese Colonialism is meaningful in the history of Korean literature. No-hyang Kang's works possess a literary value as a proof of lives of Koreans living in a foreign country who lost their home country by describing the joys and sorrows of Joseon people enduring tough times in Shanghai. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how Koreans survived in Shanghai during the period of Japanese Colonialism and, through this, to inquire into the meaning of the literature of Shanghai experience by No-hyang Kang based on his works with the setting in Shanghai.