한국전쟁과 아동문학ㆍ3－이원수와 강소천의 소년소설 비교 연구－

Abstract

Lee Won-soo and Kang So-cheon were one of the victims of the Korean War who lost their families and wrote more pieces in remembrance of the War than anyone else. Lee's <Little Ogi> series and Kang's <Flower Shoes> and <The Photo Studio that Captures Dreams>, which were released right after the Korean War, were the major pieces of children's literature that consoled the national trauma and unveiled the tragedy of war. However, the target readers of these pieces are rather high as their fantastic imagination is classified into the fantasies of ‘heart-broken adults.’ Both writers were desperately seeking to relieve their traumas, so they addressed their own issues through the ‘fantasy of granting wishes.’ They sought redemption and mourning for the loss of family through a series of children's tales and devoted more to create full-length novels (mostly Juvenile novels) at the new starting point of reality. Those full-length novels include Lee's <Dandelion's Song> and <Echo Boy> and Kang's <The Village Where Sunflowers Bloom> and <Longing for an Echo>. Their full-length novels had conflicting effects due to the discrepancies in their memories of and perspectives toward the Korean War. Lee's novels criticized state violence as a resistance against the governing ideology, while Kang's novels expressed antagonism against ‘communists’ to reinforce the governing ideology. The two writers' pursuits spread farther apart over time. For that reason, Lee and Kang are named the critical writers who divided the children's literature of their time into progressives and conservatives. The influence of Korean War on children's literature has continued throughout the age of division and so has the confrontations in the children's literature groups.