한국전쟁과 아동문학ㆍ2－강소천의 「꽃신」과 「꿈을 찍는 사진관」－

Abstract

The objective of this study is to clarify the difference between inferior works being often criticized and a small number of masterpieces listed in the canon among major works of Kang So-cheon who remembers the Korean War. Kang So-cheon has written works appease, with a fantasy, the longing for his family left in North Korea more than anyone else. Except an extremely small number of them, the general level of works is low, and more seriously, they are absorbed in anticommunist thoughts. Above all, such qualitative inferiority and anticommunism are correlated in his works. If this fact is neglected or the text is viewed only from an external perspective, one may value Kang So-cheon positively while another may value him negatively all in all, with above-stated issues remaining unsolved. Works of Kang So-cheon in remembrance of the Korean War are closely related with the war trauma. In the process of soothing the longing for his family left in North Korea, the artist’s victimhood led to expressions of anger towards ‘North Korean Communist Army and the Red Army’ in his works where the ideas are careless and the solutions are conventional. 「The Shield-shaped Kite」 and 「A House Selling Dream」 are two examples in this regard. In contrast, works that reflect the artist’s guilty focus more on the tragedy of the war and national division than anticommunism and are out of conventional didacticism with the layers of interpretation deep. For example, 「Floral Shoes」 and 「A Photo Studio Taking Photos of Dream」 form a consensus with contemporary readers who suffer the war trauma.