해방기 시에 나타난 만주상상력 연구

Abstract

The Manchurian region is still the historical site that is at the center of academic issues. Among the many discussions, there has been a constant debate over the time of the building of Manchukuo, which was built by the Japanese colonial ruling. Manchukuo was the space that promoted its status as a modern nation while exposing the real limitations caused by the imperial ambition. Although Manchukuo disappeared along with the defeat of the Japanese empire, but the memories of the region and neighboring countries are not free from that time as well as the present day. This study started from an attempt to elucidate the Manchurian imagination from the literary point of view through the period from the Manchukuo era to the liberation period. Yoo Chihwan and Lee Wook are similar in family backgrounds and their age personally, and they also have the commonality of having resided in the area during the Manchukuo period and having published their works in The poetry of Koreans in Manchuria. On the other hand, they greeted the turbulence of the liberation period in South Korea and Yanbian respectively, and then they continue on their lives in totally different environments. The comparison points of the two poets provide an opportunity to see how the imagination surrounding Manchuria is written in the liberation period. I analyzed the Manchurian imagination, which was confirmed in the liberation period, by reviewing how the Manchurian image that was displayed in The poetry of Koreans in Manchuria has been remembered and imagined afterwards. In order to discuss the Manchurian imagination of the liberation period, it should be preceded by examining what were the images that the poets had with regard to Manchuria in the previous period. The subject consciousness that the two poets had respectively showed was the abhorrence and the youthful sorrow for the human race which contrast with nature. The reason why Yoo Chihwan who moved to Manchuria used stern poetry criticizing the human corruption is because the life of primitive nature he felt in Manchurian area extreme contrasted with human behavior. Lee Wook, who had settled down in Manchuria as a settler of migration, reveals his nostalgia in the process of expressing his youthful sorrows, and in the sense that Joseon is assumed as his hometown, we can confirm the aspect of the ethnicity that constitutes the inside of the migrants. Yoo Chihwan who greeted liberation in South Korea reproduces Manchurian memory in the chaotic situation of the liberation period. He imagines Manchuria as a space where there was a pure passion soundly worrying only about the fate of the nation and its people, while being in the political situation in which people aimed to take the momentum with their self-interest. We can see that Manchurian imagination is composed romantically as he presented a poem that remembers Manchuria as a space of pureness, along with the poem which was critical of the reality, showing a stern roar to the crowd who only went after their self-interest. In the liberation period, Lee Wook, who participated in the Chinese socialist projects around Yanbian University, continued his active literary activities by joining the Chinese Writers Association for the first time as a Korean. He escapes the personal lyric that had been seen up to that point and shows the effect of the socialist literature ideals and concentrates on the creation of teleological literature. He expresses his fondness for the mainland China that promised non-discriminatory opportunities for minority people, and produces works with clear consciousness of history and politics in order to reveal his national pride as a Korean. We can see that the Manchu area is the foundation of the national existence and is being reestablished as a space for historical development and harmony to Lee Wook. Manchurian imagination, which acted differently for the two poets in the liberation period, also affects the world of their works later. Yoo Chihwan has lyrically expressed his interests in various ways, crossing between individuals and society, while Lee Wook continues his work around socialist system-oriented themes. Through these conclusions, we can confirm that the memory of Manchuria is differently imagined and reproduced according to the needs through the liberation period and until the later time. In addition, we can try to see if this method of study is useful for researching on the consciousness of other poets and writers calling Manchuria after the Manchukuo period.