사상의 통국가성－2000년대 이후 김윤식의 한국근대문학론

Abstract

Kim Yoon－shik(1936∼2018) is a towering figure in modern Korean literature with his scholarly oeuvre of over two hundred volumes covering almost every possible topic of the field. One of the trademarks of Kim’s studies on modern Korean literature is that he kept questioning how to define modern Korean literature. Despite the fact that he identified himself as literary historian and critic in modern Korean literature, it seems that his interest was never in offering the systemic knowledge of the field. Instead, he ceaselessly questioned parameters of modern Korean literature and his own role in setting the parameters. Looking at the course of Kim’s studies in modern Korean literature, it can be divided into two eras:pre－1990s and post－1990s eras. During the latter era, Kim focused how he had been actively engaging in making association of literary texts written in Korean to the notion of modern nation of “Korea.” In other words, his post－1990s work effectively showed how the nationalist visioning and making of “Korea” had been executed in transnational context. Throughout the process of relativizing of “Korea” in his self－reflective examination, Kim formulated the writing as ongoing process of creating its own parameters. In this paper, I highlight the points observed in Kim’s post－1990s work by analyzing Kim’s studies on late－colonial bilingual Korean literature and autographical essays on his academic life, both composed in the 2000s and 2010s.