월북 여성작가 지하련과 이선희의 해방직후 - 소설 「창」, 「도정」을 중심으로

Abstract

Ji Ha-ryun and Lee Sun-hee are the two female writers defected from South Korea, who are on the list of formerly banned writers of the Republic of Korea. The works of these two writers, definite representatives of division literature classified as 'A level defectors before the 6.25', were prohibited of sale. However, at the same time, due to the classification as a female writer, their works were discussed without specific connection to the political condition of the Korean Peninsula, such as liberation, division or war. In other words, they were primarily read as self-narratives of a New Women in relation with colonial modernity. Meanwhile, their novels of liberation period, 「Path(Dojeong)」 and 「Window(Chang)」, written with a male main character, are exceptional. This writing does not unilaterally define Ji Ha-ryun and Lee Sun-hee as female writers or defectors to North Korea. Nor does it emphasize the double limitation of being both female writer and defector writer. It simply intends to examine the process and result of their conversion into leftist, right after the liberation. Thus, it attempts to comprehend the above subject along with the effect of female literary world, created from the colonial journalism and mass media, and the effect of anticommunist nationalism, which was to be established afterward. That is to say, their activities and whereabouts during the liberation period demonstrates an identity of a leftist female writer. This was temporarily observed before the ideological cold war in the period of division into left and right. Nevertheless, their works, 「Window(Chang)」 and 「Path(Dojeong)」 do not fit to the frames of progressive realism or revolutionary romanticism. Rather, they are more close to a narrative in between. This writing intends to trace the works and activities of Ji Ha-ryun and Lee Sun-hee during liberation period, who had both converted to leftist female writer. Yet, it attempts to comprehend the narratives of 「Window(Chang)」 and 「Path(Dojeong)」 apart from the exclusive separation between left and right. This is to criticize the perception that tries to comprehend the lives and works of Lee Sun-hee and Ji Ha-ryun lopsidedly at an extreme, whether positive or negative, due to the resultive geographical migration act, which is referred to as defection to North Korea,