민족주의 담론과 ‘주체’의 문학사

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to elucidate how the ideological discourse of nationalism operates as a major principle in writing a literary history, especially on the North Korean literary histories written on the basis of the Ideology of Sovereignty. The research was conducted on the two texts, Korean Literary History : on the ancient and middle eras(1977) and Korean Literary History(1991~94, vols. 1~15), focusing on the contrasts of them. The recent 15-volume version has been found to put emphasis on the perpetuity, superiority, and purity of this nation through the writing of literary history, more arduously than the 1977 version. The recent trend in North Korea, of strengthening the beliefs in the perpetuity and purity of the nation, is found to be the essential principle of writing the 15-volume version. In the 15-volume version, dalgoriche form as one of national lyric forms is said to be originated in the age of Goguryo. The book also says that shijo form came out in the later 10th century, which was the early period of Koryo dynasty, and that Koryo Gayo was also born in the later 10th and the early 11th centuries. These are new arguments, but the research has found out that evidences are scanty and there are many logical jumps in the process of the arguments. These assertions are coming from a narrow viewpoint of nationalism, which insists on the historical developments of national lyric forms. The 15-volume version gives new appraisal on some works which were negatively judged and discarded as conservative and reactionary. This shows the suppleness and expansion of viewpoint of writing, which is appraised as a result of the operation of nationalism as a major power of writing. The 15-volume version argues that it gives a new organization of history out of progressive nationalistic viewpoint. But the research has criticized this attitude of 15-volume history as narcissistic and self-closing nationalism, based on a narrow regionalism and egocentrism. It is supposed to be the first and foremost task of the 15-volume Korean Literary History to get out of this trap of nationalism.