삐라와 연애편지 －일제 하 노동자소설에 나타난 노동조합의 의미－

Abstract

This paper explores the question of labor unions in colonial Korean literature by focusing on Song Young, Han Sul-Ya, and Kang Kyung-Ae's literary works. Song Young's works are characterized by the realistic representation of laborers' lives and the optimistic view about their future in terms of their efforts at organizing labor unions. Song depicts the alternative ways in which his young characters who face dilemma over socialist movement struggle to gain their loves. Han Sul-Ya describes dynamic movement of labor unions to rally unorthodox groups. In an exemplary text Hwanghon, laborers are striving to associate different groups with the union instead of struggling against the capitalists. However, it is difficult to find out 'fully' angered laborers and 'literally' spontaneous labor unions in colonial Korean literature. In this respect, Kang Kyung-Ae's In-gan Mun-je is a significant text which deals with subaltern's resentment and desire. Especially, the leaflets in In-gan Mun-je which the intellectual Yoo Sin-Chul writes and the laborer Choe-chae scatters plays an vital role in laborers' emotional as well as ideological growth.