반공호국문학의 구조

Abstract

This study attempted to make a detailed investigation of the structure of anti-communist country-defending literature that had a tremendous effect on the field of post-war Korean literature before and after the Korean war through the war literature organ that can be said to be the important nodal point of Korean literature. For this purpose, this study confined its domain to 『Front-line Literature』 which was the army war organ. The reason is that the war writers of the navy and the air forces were not actually active because of difficulty in going to the front and that the organ was imperfect as well. An attempt was made to analyze 『Front-line Literature』. As a result, the content structure of 『Front-line Literature』 could be defined as having the ethical nature in a broad sense. This ethical nature was part of making the state of liberated people. We limited it to the principle of one people, which would be said to be the universal phenomenon in that it was the product of combining diverse national discourses and ethical discourse in the period of liberation. This ethical nature changed the nature of Korean literature greatly. The ethical nature that actually defined the literary men and their literary contents was the core principle that defined Korean literature. It appeared in a form of removing obscenity from literature. In addition, it resulted in disregarding the body or material and specializing the spirit. This characteristic can be said to be the inevitable phenomenon because country building was found in the characteristic of familism. It can be said that familism was part of nationalism to borrow the Confucian family view and reinforce the state system. Accordingly, the nature of the state came to have the strong nature of the family community. For this reason, nationalism was reinforced, where the clue that caused the state to be regarded as the communal ethics was formed. But as familism was based on male paternalism, noble masculinity was emphasized in 『Front-line Literature』 and the value of sacrifice was imposed on woman. Woman was the 2nd-class people and subordinate to the value of sacrifice for man. It is judged that an attempt to investigate front-line literature as an example that this ethical nature was closely combined with one ideological nature was an important study in identifying Korean literature.