‘탈식민‒냉전’과 ‘65년 체제’에 대한 한국문학의 서사적 대응 -최인훈, 하근찬, 선우휘의 작품을 중심으로-

Abstract

Through World War II, Asia requires a frame of ‘Decolonization- Cold War’ rather than a separate issue of decolonization and the Cold War, so Korean society should look at the San Francisco system and the ‘65-year system’. This is because the ‘65-year system’, which has political and historical issues of ‘Decolonization-Cold War’, lies at the horizon of the San Francisco system. The relationship between the two provides a useful study for discussing the response of Korean literature to the ‘Decolonization-Cold War’ and the ‘65-year-old system’. Therefore, this article is based on the discussion of Korean literature related to the ‘65-year system’, but it examines the Korean literature's response to the ‘Decolonization- Cold war' as an issue. To this end, we paid attention to Choi In-hoon's series of <the sound of the governor>, Ha Geun-chan's short stories and novel <Yaho(야호)>, and Sun Woo-hwi's novel <wave to Mekong (river)>. Through the strategy of satire's narrative, which combines ‘literal representation’ and ‘oral representation’, Choi In-hoon makes the ‘65-year system’ an issue as his own narrative in series of <the sound of governor>. This is a critical reflection of the global clock that not only the San Francisco system, but also the modern European system, which firmly supports the San Francisco system, is embodied in colonial rule under the name of civilization and enlightenment toward the non-Western world, and East Asia and the Korean Peninsula face a crisis in the cold world amid political and political and economic chaos. Ha Geun-chan's literature is linked to colonialism in imperial Japan, and when the narrative related to the Korean War is understood in conjunction with the ‘65-year system’, a more contentious approach to his literature is possible. The anticommunism and Cold War order under the ‘65-year system’ disprove that the author's epic reenactment of <Yaho>'s ‘Decolonization-Cold War" cannot be free from anticommunism and subjugation of politics that absorbs and converges into the Cold War order rather than critical reflection. In this respect, <Yaho>’s literature on the ‘65-year system’ constitutes an issue of Korean literature in a different dimension from the epic completeness of the work. Vietnam War is a very important event when looking at the ‘65-year system’ in the frame of ‘Decolonization-Cold War’. Sun Woo-hwi's <wave to the Mekong River> deals with Vietnam War, which forms a ‘65-year system’, but does not activate the view of antiwar peace, nor does it fully defend or criticize the rule of the country that participated in Vietnam War. As such, the response of Korean modern literature to the ‘65-year system’ is bound to be multilayered, which requires a contentious approach to Korean morern literature. This is also a task that Radical and contentious discussions of Korean modern literature realize the grand task of actively constructing ‘new world literature’. Since then, it is hoped that more controversial discussions on the ‘65-year system’ will continue in Korean modern literature to further raise awareness of this problem.