안수길의 해방전후 “만주” 서사에 나타난 민족 인식 - 타민족과의 관계를 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis discussed about the national recognition in An Soo-gil's novel, as an important symbol of nationalism, by observing the relations with other nationalities like Chinese and Japanese. The national relations in An Soo-gil's novel during Manchu empire period were mostly based on the "Ethnic Harmony". The friendly attitude and close connection towards Chinese in Qing dynasty was emphasized while disharmonious and uncomfortable feeling and also distinct sense of distance between Korean and Japanese was emphasized on the opposite, which was the result of An Soo-gil's view that Manchurians and the Han people who took the largest part of the population were the real master of Manchukuo, Japanese who took the dominant position were only the aggressors and Koreans as the immigrants who had to move and settle on the "other's land" for survival were different from Japanese dominants and also could not become the same dominants. However, after the liberation, An Soo-gil's Bukgando as the representative work of his novels about "Manchukuo" showed a very different national relations to readers. From the view of the recovery of native land, Bukgando announced that Gando was our territory, tried to arouse the confrontation with Chinese for the fundamental reason and totally highlight the anti-Japanese independence struggle. An Soo-gil tried to set up the national identity of refugees in Manchu by narrating the anti-Japanese independence movement and the history that the Koreans immigrants had immigrated into Manchu to do farm work on "native land" as a resonable historical fact. However the event that Jungsu, a soldier of national independence army before, gave himself up to the Japanese police and the change of his father, Changyun, who had persuaded Jungsu to give himself up showed the fact that people were gradually effected by Gando invasion policy of Japan. Meanwhile, this also can be seen as the result of An Soo-gil's experience in Manchu. Like this, the relations between Koreans and Chinese and the relations between Koreans and Japanese presented in Bukgando are very different from his novels in Manchu empire period which showed the close connection with Chinese and the repulsion towards Japanese. This is because that with the Japanese censorship law in Manchu empire period, An Soo-gil must have felt the stress of pro-Japanese and tried carefully to get rid of the suspect but in South Korea after the liberation, pro- Japanese experience or behavior of the refugees from Manchu before might not arouse big problems. This may also be seen as the prototype of his experience in Manchu and the result of his convert compromise towards Japan.