전시소설과 죽음의 정치학

Abstract

This study is to show how the death was demonstrated in the War-time novels of the 1950's. The 1950's was the chaotic period by the Korean war as it brought the domestic dissension and the ideological conflict as well as the sudden death to a person and a mass murder. Under the war, an ideological choice became the same thing of a choice between life and death. Relating to the war, ‘death’ was considered to be the most important keyword of 50's literature out of the terms, ‘war’, ‘ideology’, ‘anxiety’, ‘liberty’, and ‘existence’ etc. The anxiety and the fear as well as the existence consciousness came from the death. The War-time novels in which there's lots of government supporting tendency due to the War-time. The War-time novels in the early 1950's show a propaganda drama of anti-Communism and patriotic sentiment. This anti-Communism and patriotic sentiment originate from regarding the Communism with a monster, insanity, madness and a malignant disease. After all the War-time Novels is a sublime war against the invasion of the anti-Communism. Thus the ideological conflict is shown its sensitiveness in the literary work that process of aggression and revenge according to revers of the war situation and in the ideological conflict among a family.