반공 국민의 회고담과 민족주의적 주체 구성의 자기 서사 -모윤숙의 『회상의 창가에서』를 중심으로

Abstract

The Literary circle after the Korean War endeavored to rebuild the concept of national literature exclusive to South Korea through publishing the History of literature and canonical works of literature. Based on the various autobiographical memoirs that have been actively published since the 1960s, this study tried to examine the discourse of anti-communist national literature constructed in Mo Youn-sook's Hoesangui Changgaeseo (The Window of Reminiscence). Due to pro-Japan activities during the colonial period, Mo Youn-sook's works of literature have not been sufficiently studied. Mo Youn-sook's recollection was not a simple personal confession but rather a literary narrative in which it formed a political and ideological self. It was a part of the publication of autobiographies of various writers who were related to colonial collaboration. As analyzing Mo Youn sook’s work, this study aims to reveal how the colonial past was concealed or adjusted, and at the same, how the experiences of war constructed a national history. Hoesangui Changgaeseo can be divided into two parts; the first half dealing with the colonial period and the second half dealing with the post-liberation period. In the first half, Mo Youn-sook erases the charges of cooperation with Japan by omitting social activities as a female celebrity. Through the texts on her childhood and school experiences, she focuses on the influences of her father and emphasizes that he participated in the independence movement. And it constructs the identity of a girl who waits for an adult who will lead national independence. After her debut, The memoir emphasizes the relationship with Yi Kwang-soo. By reading his inner national spirit, she was able to defend and omit her past. The liquidation of coloniality through oblivion becomes an effective way to justify the past of Mo Youn-sook, Yi Kwang-soo, and other collaborators with Japan. Mo Youn-sook's insistence that Koreans should become one with the empire during the colonial period changed into the goal of building an anti-communist nation during the liberation period. The memoir after the liberation deleted the Nakrang Club activities and strengthened an identity as a civilian diplomat. The memoir records the process that Mo Youn-sook become a member of the Pen Club. And it reveals that she has succeeded in achieving the name of a national poet. Mo Youn-sook's national discourse demanded to become one instead of remembering the colonial past and dictatorship. Mo Youn-sook's national discourse, which demanded to become one instead of remembering the colonial past and dictatorship. It allows us to find the colonial discourse repeated by anti-communist nationalism after the Korean war. And it makes it possible to discover the contradictions and limitations of the post-war Korean literature that has been trying to construct national literature.