정치적 연출과 기억의 재구성 맹세와 기념을 중심으로

Abstract

Especially, the series of ‘Immortal History’ and a reminiscence ‘With the Century’ contributed to make the historical description form into ‘history’ and drive the people to forget the events and reconstruct their memories through evoking the particular emotion from the literature, such as canonization and commemoration. In this paper, it was investigated how Kim Il Sung used the political dramaturgy to constructed his position as a monarch by studying the form os oath appeared in ‘With the Century’ and ‘Immortal History’. Also, it was also investigated about the commemorating which is one of the policies to keep the people’s faith in the monarch. There are several types of commemorating acts, but this study focuses on the Revolutionary Martyrs’Cemetery, which is the combined form of royal tomb and monument. In ‘With the Century’, there are three part of an oath : Kim Il Sung reminds an oath by other person, firm resolution of promising, and an oath by himself. In this part, an oath by himself was directed as a political purpose. Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery contributed to reconstruct the memories about the armed anti-Japanese movement during the Japanese Colonial era in. Thus, the monument reconstructed the people’s memories focusing on the monarch, Kim Il sung, and his close associates. It is finally resulted in the establishment of firm position of Kim Il Sung as a monarch. However, the people’s memories are removed from this process, so the meaning of the Revolutionary Tradition was diluted from its original purpose. Even though the memories of people were reconstructed through the reminiscence, it obviously seems the memories of people were excluded from the political and cultural product.