해방이전 중국 조선인 문학의 전개양상과 주제의식

Abstract

Chinese-Korean literature contains various layers of images based on the geographical and historical time and space that run through China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. It is a multi-faceted entanglement of political ideology and social cultural points linked with the migration and movement of Koreans abroad, the anti-Japanese movement during the Japanese colonial period, and Chinese communist socialism after liberation. Pre-liberation Chinese-Korean literature, in particular, narrates through various works, including newspapers affiliated with ethnic groups, communists, and Japan, the life of Koreans that changed as they drifted in Jiandao and Manchuria. Major writers include Kim Taek-young and Shin Chae-ho, as well as Kang Kyeong-ae, Shin Jeong, Shin Seo-ya, Park Gye-ju, Hyun Kyung-jun, and Park Young-jun, Ahn Soo-gil, and Yoon Dong-ju. Their literary world is themed around migration/movement, settlement/reclamation, the anti-Japanese movement, national consciousness/national education, and their own (national) identity, which converge in the Diaspora consciousness of Koreans. The Korean literature of Jiandao/Manchuria before the liberation of Korea has historical and literary significance from the perspective of foreign Korean literary topography (former Soviet Union/American/Japanese literature, etc.), and also, from the prospective of modern Korean history: a valuable document of our modern history that took place outside the country during the late Joeson/Japanese colonial period, completing the history of Korea’s modern and contemporary literature that were left blank in terms of literary works. In particular, the literature of Koreans in Jiandao/Manchuria, China has great implications not only for examining the literature during the Japanese colonial period in connection with the modern and contemporary literature of China and North Korea, but also in the process of preparing for the future unification era as these are not mere recorded texts using past tense in Hangeul.