탈-중심적 문학사의 주체화와 그 가능성의 조건들- 임화 「개설 신문학사」재독(再讀)

Abstract

The assessment on Lim Hwa's history of Korean new literature is divided into two in gross. The first one criticizes it since Lim Hwa's theory lacks subjective attitude. The second one assesses it as it reflects objectively about 'Severance and succession on tradition'. The problem arose in these assessments is that they commonly ask whether Lim Hwa's history of Korean new literature triggers common national consciousness. This question in fact confuses right understanding on Lim Hwa's history of Korean new literature because he did not intend to trigger cultural identity in which people identify themselves as one nation by non-political way. Rather, he understood specificity in nation during the colonial period by Japan as social separateness and tried to re-construct it as a literature. This shows that through describing history of literature, not only that he became aware of common national consciousness but also that he reflected the ideal structure of the world. Lim Hwa's history of Korean new literature suggests that universality itself is already a particular by overcoming a point of view that universal one is symbolized by a particular one. Therefore, Lim Hwa's decentralized history of literature is one of results of the particular way that keeps the universality of Western modern literature up. So Chosun dynasty's history of new literature does not expose lack of the universality (The world literature) itself by Lim Hwa, rather it is a reflection of a particular spiritual index that sustains the universal structure of the world.