인민의 국가, 망각의 언어 — 인민의 국가를 그린 해방직후의 기행문들

Abstract

If Liberation of Korea must be liberation of people, the sovereign state that will newly established must be the people’s state which guarantee the freedom of people. In this article I shed light on how the expectation of the people’s state did expressed through travelogues written after the Liberation of Korea. The narrative about the people’s state that guarantee the liberation of people was the narrative which define who are the people and who are not people. I will ask the meaning of those defining. The way to Yenan(延安行, 1946) written by Kim, Tae-jun and Kim Saryan's Long way of slow horse(駑馬萬里, 1947) were the memoirs of their escapes to Yenan, depicted Yenan as a people’s state. The reason was that the people have widen the freedom through horizontal communication based on moral unification. On the other hand Lee, Tae-jun insisted that Soviet Union guarantees absolute equality to every nation even to minorities.(Travel to Soviet Union 蘇聯紀行, 1947) These travelogues have expressed the expectations that the people’s state realized in newly changing world system after World War II. But their dreams can not be free from the division of Cold War and shadow of power politics. 38 North was also described as a people’s state. On, Nak-jung’s Travel to North Korea(北朝鮮紀行, 1948) and Seo, Kwang-jae’s Travel to North Korea(北朝鮮紀行, 1948) and Kim, Dong-Seog’s North Korea's impression(北朝鮮의 印象, 1948) depicted North as a place where the modernization realized morally. According to these travelogue that adore the appearance and leadership of Kim Il Sung, the development of the North was possible by this extraordinary leader. The narrative of that revolutionary armed force leaded by Kim Il Sung made possible the birth of new state and the renewal of people by conduct Land reform, demarcate who is this people and who are not the people. People became something who received land gratefully and reborn through the Democratic reforms. The situation that the people could not be no longer open or indeterminate term, made people as a word of forgetting. Because anyone could be people just by follow the sovereign who prescribed the boundary of people.(People may have forgotten the memory of past under the Imperial system of fascism. Because they forgot the memory of ruled past, they still keep the place look up sovereign power.) If the people’s state can not but alienated at the point that the people were defined only by sovereign power, the people’s state erected by this course can turn back to prison at any time.