일제말기 생산소설 연구

Abstract

Since 1937, expanding the Pacific War following Sino-Japanese War, Japanese imperialism had focused national policies on conducting a war. Under these ircum-stances, the korean literature became subordinate to political authority and supported national polices, that was so called national policy literature.Under this period, production literature was raised its head as one of national policy literature. The production novels of the end of Japanese imperialism have shown four types. The first one showed the way of devotion to the country through production. The second one showed the way of repaying national grace through labor service for national infrastructure and production increase. The third focused on a human being to make an effort to exploit underground resources. The last was intend to infuse imperialistic standpoints on labor to encourage intellectual's return to the farm and to put everybody in the scene of labor. The expansion of war in this period led to the impoverishment of rural communities. It caused a manpower shortage in farm villages by putting farmers in battlefields. at the same time it demanded more of war supplies. To overcome the irony, Japanese imperialism encouraged production under the slogan of regeneration of farm household. Therefore, we can see the subjects of production novels as mentioned above, novelized Japanese imperialist policies as they were.