당(黨)문학의 전통과 7차 당 대회 전후의 북한문학 비판

Abstract

This paper presents analysis on the characteristics of North Korean literature before and after the 7th party convention of North Korea(May 2016) historically from the standpoint of the Party Literature Theory. For that, the analysis of North Korean literature trends was contextualized in the historical traditions of the 1st to 6th party conventions without temporal and spatial limitation called the ‘texts of literary magazines’ in 2016. We looked back on how party convention and literature had been related to each other in the socialist system, and evaluated the 7th party convention and literature of Kim Jeong-eun era in that patterns. The literature trend in the 5th year of reign by Kim Jeong-eun, which straddles before and after the 7th party convention, is almost similar to the literary response witnessed in the 5th party convention(1970) and the 6th party convention(1980). There has been no change in the frame of authors’ absolute obedience to the party policy and custom-made creation of propaganda literature. Literature is still repeating metaphoric, old and stereotyped mode of artistic creation, using combat jargons and production process, as the party convention led by new young leader is held in 36 years. Among good examples are included the slogans such as ‘Manrima’ discours, a variant of the ‘Cheonrima’ discourse which was the symbol of socialism construction in the 1950s and 60s, ‘Sokdojeon(Speed competition)’ which adopted the artistic creation mode of Juche Literature Theory in 1970s, ‘70-day combat, 200-day combat’ etc., which were launched to boost production, in 1980s. For the viewpoint of other person, the poverty of literary imagination is still so overwhelming even in 2017, the era of the space, that the clock seems to have stopped in the 1960s or East Asian medieval period. Until such conclusion was drawn, the cultural research access proved effective which analyzed the historicism providing a link to relationship and patterns between the party history and literary history and articles of Joseon Literature & Literature Newspaper(Munhak-sinmun) based on the theory of media. The media studies & cultural studies can provide new vitality to existing studies focusing on historicism-based approaches.