‘교양’되는 북조선 - 1940년대 후반 북한소설 「개벽」, 「로동일가」, 「소낙비」에 투영된 근대성 이미지를 중심으로 -

Abstract

The early North Korean narratives in short stories published in late 1940s share the context of the desire for occupying the whole Korean Peninsula in the specific political situation of the liberation period. In these short stories, North Korea is the new space which was founded on the liquidation of the past(the Japanese colonial era). At the same time, it is the starting point for founding Utopia as Communist society. And the narratives are going to make the characters and readers be involved in the sustained order as a basic frame there. The basic of this order is the hierarchy structure which has the Great Leader's position placed on the highest point as the peak and it means every character in the narratives has strong trust without any doubt because this trust is very related to the fundamental power for solution to the main problem which has to be solved in the narrative. In other words, internalizing this trust makes it be able to distinguish which one is good or bad among things which unused to naturally related with good or bad before. Because this clear dichotomy is based on the historical and arbitrary combination, it needs a myth that is as the absolute trust toward the peak-position of the structure very clearly for convincing that it has increate combination to people. And, the characters who are able to distinguish between good and bad one and in this, take right behaviors can be involved into the order in the basic frame of the narratives and reach the ultimate goals the narratives are aiming. This internalization takes the imagery as being filled with macroscopic interest for considering their country and nation over their narrow personal daily interest which they used to. Therefore, the process for making them be involved into the order of the narrative is also showing the process which is getting an empowered ability for reproduction of controling the social system itself . By the way, it is the cultivation that the direct strategy for bringing the 'good' present different from the past. Basically, this term 'cultivation' is based on the practical examples, it means the context for teaching or leading others under some purpose. Also, the details shows their assignments is on the extension from the basic logic of modernity which divides between past and present and makes it hierarchical between old one and new one(or center and margin) during the process of the cultivation. The three short stories as objects for analysis in this article show these overall context. These stories show patterns that general elements of modernity is interacting with people practically in the specific context of history, mainly, in the case of the Gebeok(Lee, Gi-Young, 1946), it is through the process for cultivating that new one is definitely good in the conflict between the old moral sense he used to and new things, in the case of the Nodongilga(Lee, buk-myeung, 1947), it is by the cultivation through showing a exemplary character as a good laborer who already internalizes the combination not yet familiar for most people, and in the case of the Sonakbi(Cheon, Se-bong, 1948), it is by taking a climax of adoration about new ones showing new generation characters which never need cultivation at all. In addition, these narratives show the early forms about the issue of cultivation in the very early North Korean fiction narratives.