지난 10여 년간 동화·아동소설의 흐름과 장르 문제

Abstract

This paper is the third writing, among the series planned to investigate the genre of children’s epic literature. In the Japanese occupation period,children’s epic literature was divided into children’s story and children’s novel clearly and then, they were marked with two parts stably till the seventies. But after the eighties, the genre marking was started to be unclear so in the 2000s, the genre names were combined by ‘children’s story’. This paper revealed that two parts of children’s story and children’s novel had been still created by examining publishing situation of children’s books and main works which have been included in Korean publish yearbook for the past 10 years. But, it evaluated that people concerned in children’s literature were mainly discussing about novels whose object was relatively high age group and pointed that they overlooked the value of book and children’s story genres for readers of tender age. In addition, it opens the future’s direction by making a diagnosis of reasons for the reality that signifiers of children’s story are sufficient but it’s difficult to find true children’s story and there are full of children’s novels.