통일문학 담론의 반성과 분단문학의 기원 재검토

Abstract

Currently in 2010, the relationship between North and South Koreas is not optimistic enough to be related to the unification literature. It is even hard to execute any communication between two sides. The discussion of the suggested ‘unification literature’ can be examined as the output of the optimism for the excessive evaluation of a series of literary exchange through the ‘Korean National Writers Conference’(2005) and the ‘6․15 National Association of Literary People’(2006) together with the publication of the Unification Literature(2008). As an appropriate alternative, the origin of the division for the literature in North and South Koreas after liberation is reconsidered. By analyzing Munhwa-Jeonseon(1946∼47) which used to be the literary magazine in North Korea, it is possible to know that such symbols as Korean national flag and anthem were used in North Korea right after liberation. However, there was also such an independent symbol as The Song of General Kim Il-sung at the same time. When two different governments were established in North and South Koreas in 1948, the political symbols were also established differently and the literature was divided into two different parts. In North Korea, the pure literature was abandoned because of the indictment related to Eunghyang(凝香) which was a collection of poems. In South Korea, because of the literary arguments between left- and right-wings, the left-wing literature and the middle-class literature were abandoned. Due to the different kinds of awareness for the essences and social functions of literature, the literature in North and South Koreas has been divided. It is necessary to provide understanding and communication for the literature in North and South Koreas, but the real world does not allow such understanding and communication. In particular, by looking at Chosun-Munhak which is the literary magazine in North Korea, it is possible to know that the entire literature is related to such topics as the dictatorial theory and the army-priority idea, making it hard for the readers to understand and communicate with it. In the currently executed crisis of the system, I believe that the literature must return to the time right after liberation when a number of authors truly reflected various human stories.