문학좌담회로 읽는 광주전남 지역문학

Abstract

This study is to bring out regional identity, literary status, and to suggest literary prospect through the round-table talks for the regional literature held in Gwangju-Chonnam. The literary talks make it possible to inspect some internal considerable thoughts, and to grasp some differences to the central literature, in addition literary directions after that talks. The talks, in some respects, as a domain of official dialogue and exchange of information was very political, so it had concerned historical directions of regional literature. Now, let’s try to summarize as below. Firstly, the literature of Gwangju-Chonnam was in a condition which is historically confused, but the talks tried to produce some discussions of identification with positive intentions. Particularly literary movements of the Chonnam branch of National Association of Cultural Organizations-National Salvation Unit were remarkably constructive during Korean war period,even if they could hardly be free from ideology. However there were very internal considerable thoughts and trans-historical tracks of the literati. Their literary directions not only coincided with pure literature’s but also ideological. It really had a big impact on literary history of Gwangju-Chonnam. Secondly, the talks with some central literati was likely to be bureaucratic acting for disseminating their central mechanism or literary discourse,which was to transit regional literature. Central literati who were in attendance at the talks had literary power centralized on Modern Literature 『現代文學』, and new literati were inevitably under the shadow of the former union. Such being the case, the invisible infiltration of literary cliques into regional literature had led to subordinate it upon central literature. Resultingly, the round-table talks of literary magazines and newspapers in Gwangju-Chonnam showed the own formational process of regional literature and the very actual status after liberation of colonial system, which 문학좌담회로 읽는 광주전남 지역문학 321lied in both political and literary power. Henceforth, these facts will raise up not only the need for solicitous researches on writing of the history of regional literature in Gwangju-Chonnam inclusive of other regions, but also that of modern literature.