최병화의 해방기 장편 소년소설 연구—해방기 도시・농촌의 지역성 인식을 중심으로

Abstract

Choi Byeong-hwa has not been studied in depth, although it should be noted that he published three full-length monographs for a short period of time after liberation from 1949-1951. The key to analyzing Choi Byung-hwa ‘s novel is the combination of narrative and local awareness of urban and rural areas. Choi Byung-hwa makes a meaning in urban and rural areas with children’s gaze in his novels. The urban is a land of opportunity but has a difficulty to overcome. The rural is poor and poor, but it is set as a place of human relations. also, This study analyzes the ‘boy and girl’s gender consciousness, combined with this local awareness, as an important power of the narrative. This shows that urban and boy characteristics are connected, and rural and girl characteristics are connected. Looking at the narrative, we can find that Choi Byeong-hwas consciousness is rural－oriented. This can be seen as reflecting the values of the artist formed through the eyes of the artist who is aware of the liberation society and the activities of the Korean Writers Alliance. As the artist’s values intervene in writer’s work, the desire for the growth of children, Choi Byung-hwa, who is keenly caught up in it, and the sense of women’s human rights conflict with the artist’s ruraloriented consciousness. This point can be regarded as a major characteristic of the novels written by Choi Byung-hwa in the liberation period.