통일 담론과 남북한 문학사 소통방안

Abstract

This study begins with the question of what perspective we should take towards theNorth Korean literature which has been regarded as the other party of Korean literature. The North Korean literature is the literature of the Korean race in the northern part ofKorean Peninsula of the reunified Korea and therefore cannot be blindly rejected due tothe difference of ideology. The North Korean literature is also a literature and the literatureof Korean race. Thus, it is considered necessary to examine the period right afterthe nation’s liberalization from Japanese forced occupation, the starting period of the nation’sdivision. In relation to that, this study compared the Joseon New Literature History Surveyby Baek Cheol, Korean Modern Literature History by Jeo Yeon-hyeon, Modern Joseon LiteratureHistory by Han Hyo, Joseon Literature History After 1900s by Ahn Ham-gwang, ComprehensiveHistory of Joseon Literature by the Literature Lab of the Institute of Science, etc. The resultsshowed that the scholars in the South Korea and the North Korea attempted to secure historiclegitimacy of their regimes through the description of ‘subtraction’ aiming to appropriatethe modern literature history in a self-oriented manner and exclude thecounterparty. The self-oriented legitimacy discourse is merely the starting point of the literaturehistory of the divided nation which signified the division of mother tongue as afact. There has been little outcome providing insight into the literature history of theSouth Korea and the North Korea through integrated approach until recently after 1950s. As a result, the modern literature history of the South Korea and the North Korea hasbeen described as completely different history. For example, the no. 16 volume of JosenLiterature History of the North Korea was based on the literature history rooted in the military-first principle oriented toward Joseon Race First Policy and Theory of Great Leader,while the South Korea dismantles the literature history itself. Fortunately, the New Race Literature History Lecture by Race Literature History Lab at least describes the coexistence ofliterature of the South Korea and the North Korea as minority discourse. The reintegrationof literature history would be achieved only when the existence of North Korean literatureis recongized and the coexistence is promoted with communication.