해방 후 방정환전집과 강소천전집의 존재 양상

Abstract

This article attempts to explore the structure and changes of thecollection of Jeong-hwan Bang and that of So-cheon Kang, which areindividual authors’ anthologies published after the 1945 liberation. Korean juvenile literatures established a new tradition after the 1945liberation until the 1970s, which was a period where a creationdirection of the Korean juvenile literature was designed by collectingand assigning artworks with literary value. Jeong-hwan Bang and SocheonKang are authors who can be included to the canon genealogy ofthe Korean juvenile literature history after the liberation until today. Therefore, this article focuses on two authors’ collections reflecting thechanges of Korean juvenile literatures. From 1945 to the early 1960s,the value standard to evaluate Korean juvenile literature was not onlycollecting and excluding a certain genre but also in having literaryvalue. It is the reason that adventurous detective stories could beselected in the planning of individual authors’ collections, and thename of Jeong-hwan Bang got distributed while being symbolized asKorea’s leading children’s book author. In the late 1960s, the collectionof Jeong-hwan Bang, however, focused more on his aspect of a children’s rights activist not the reputation as a genuine creative writer. On the other hand, the collection of So-cheon Kang was firstpublished by Baeyoungsa in 1963. After multiple revisions andimprovements in the 1960s and 1970s, it earned a reputation as theleading collection of Korea juvenile literatures. In the discussion ofpure juvenile children’s literature initiated in the mid-1960s, thecollection of So-cheon Kang was highly acclaimed by the critics andresearchers of the time in that it collected and arranged artworks withliterary and artistic values. In 1981, Mooneumsa planned the collectionof Jeong-hwan Bang and that of So-cheon Kang in 15 volumes. Theadvertisement of the time greatly promoted that they were an anthologycollecting the artworks of the two prominent authors of Korea juvenileliterature, Jeong-hwan Bang and So-cheon Kang. In this perspective, itcan be learned that Jeong-hwan Bang and So-cheon Kang werepublicly acknowledged as a “children’s rights activist” and a leadingauthor of “Sunsumunhak(pure literature)” respectively.