한․중 소설에 나타난 한국전쟁과 미군의 형상화

Abstract

The US military have diversified images in the ROK and mainland China Korean War literature. Through the examination of visualized Korean War literature, the research analyzes those different images, as well as their significance, which are shaped by the ROK and mainland China novelists. Apart from several months at the very beginning of the Korean War, which is an international war, the number of literature that illustrates the US and other war parties is not considerable. Strangely, The US army, which participated in the war in the name of eternal ally, receives much criticism through a barbaric image in the ROK literature. US military characters are mainly described as being related to prostitution, and lack of humanism. On the other hand, no hostile spirit is showed in the ROK novels to the Chinese army, but the asylum and casualties caused by the Chinese intervention are specified. Due to realistic geopolitical factors, in the ROK literature, the US army would be described as the ally with friendly and kind images, while the Chinese troops, would be cruel and unclean. The fact shows that the ROK novelists try to discover the literature sprit that is behind the reality, regardless of the ideological bias or superficial observation. It might be determined that the ROK novelists are more self-regulated, compared with their counterparts in mainland China. Unlike the ROK literature, novels in mainland China share more common features in terms of the specification of the US military images, though those images are somehow orthodox. In mainland Chinese literature, the US military personnel is demonstrated as the evils, as well as wicked homicides with a cruel nature, because the US was the enemy during the war. It might be concluded that the differences in terms of political system and personal experiences in two countries lead to the diversified recognitions, perspectives and expressions.