백석의 아동 문학론 연구-「쫓기달래」를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper focuses on the theory of children's literature that Baek-seok developed as a poet in North Korea. Baek-seok deviated from the mainstream North Korean literary world of the time, called "ideological struggle." He explained that he was aspiring to write "poetically inspiring (詩情)" work. After the division, Baek-seok's most active discussion was the "Children's Literature Debate" with Lee Won-woo, the head of the children's literature division at the time. In a review, he strongly criticized the schematicism of the North Korean literary community. In particular, the "uniformity of the ruling discourse" that Baek-seok resisted during this period reminded him of the world of "modern identity" that he steadily wanted to escape from, even before the division. As such, Baek-seok resisted the "constantly forced lessons" and "injected consciousness" mentioned in his review. In addition, he questioned the creative method that formed the mainstream of the North Korean children's literature community. In Baek-seok's fairy tale poetry "Jjotgidallae," the poet's poetic perception is realized in detail, and it also shares its character with the aesthetic space embodied by Baek-seok before the division. In other words, at the moment when it changes from "O Woli" to "Jjotgidallae," a "plane of immanence" that guarantees equivalence of existence, is quickly established in the poetic world as all restrictions surrounding "O Woli" are extinguished. This newly transformed existence is reborn as a completely different subject that exists on its own, unlike before, and solves deficiencies at all levels. This is also the process of "Desubjectivization" – a poetic subject of Baek-seok's work that emerged even before the division.