한국 근대시에 투영된 만주(滿洲) 고찰

Abstract

Manchuria, called as ‘North’, North Gando, North Man, and North Frontier, is a very unique area where many people including our people had been living for a long time attached but never shown in Korean modern literature before and disappeared with the division. This area is an unique literary space having the northern life and emotion, institutions and customs vividly inside it and also the very scene where the tragic state and truth of wandering people throughout the whole Korean Peninsula during the latter half of Japanese colonial era happened in the most large and marked scale. And it is characterized to appear as an ideal space to return, recovering from the brutal life under the Japanese colonization. But this area remained forgotten or vanished for a long time in our literary history because of the division, another big tragedy after liberation. Fortunately, the study and illumination of this area and works had been done with lifting the ban on works of writers abducted and defected to North Korea, cessation of the cold war, and establishing diplomatic relations with China and Russia at the end of 1980s and recently poetries with northern emotion and imagination are published by a few poets. This article is to examine the major works periodically focusing on the first appearance in 1920s to the disappearance in the 1940s and study the characteristics shown in those works.