만들어진 전통과 ‘항일혁명 투쟁시기 문학’

Abstract

This study examines the change of North Korea’s ‘Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Literature’,and the outcome, inclination, and limit drawn from the process through a comparison of literary history published in that country, and reconsiders the process of ‘Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Literature’ politicized by means of the memory. This study takes following cross comparison methods : first, comparison of descriptive attitude by publishing companies in North Korea; second, comparison by published period; and third, the comparison of regime between South and North Korea and descriptive method. What this study aims to confirm through cross comparison is as follows : first the change of descriptive attitude toward the literary history of North Korea and descriptive difference in literary history published in Social Science Publishing Company and Kim il-sung University Press and second, tradition designing revealed in reality and politicity of description and value evaluation. In that the process of memory making of North Korea through reassignment of works is the core of ‘planned tradition making’, it diagnosed cautiously ‘Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Literature’ with an attention to these works. With this in mind, it confirmed that most of all, the descriptive method of [Literary history A] which has been neglected in Kim il-sung University Press and [Literary history B] which succeeded in it, and the process that the works which have been incorporated and omitted by period and the anonymous works are incorporated and absorbed into Kim, Il-Sung’s works is hardly different from the process that anti-Japanese revolutionary literature is reproduced into a ‘fabricated memory’ that is, a cultural memory in a certain environment with a certain purpose, and it is no more than a production of myth as a designed memory. Second, in case of [Literary history B], an effort is shown to maintain objectivity, but in many parts it succeeded in [Literary history B], only to get ‘Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Literature’ to seem poor. Besides, in that the insertion of Kim, Jung-Il’s ‘comments’ and the introduction of newly created legend related with them is interpreted as a work to prepare transition from ‘Kim, Il-Sung Period’ to ‘Kim, Jung-Il Period’, it was found that [Literary history B] is the last Kim, Il-Sung oriented literature written from the perspective of Juche Literature in ‘Kim, Il-Sung Period’.