‘해방 10년’, 시에 나타난 ‘외국’의 상상

Abstract

Based on imaginations about ‘foreign countries’ represented in poems after liberation, this study is intended to explore the poetic responses of the era. This study starts with an assumption: “More meticulous exploration of the liberation and war period will lead to more detailed identification of the changes in the poetic perceptions of the reality during the era.” As a subject matter of the exploration, representation of ‘foreign countries’ was selected. Therefore, the key content of this study is representation of ‘foreign countries’ in poems written right after liberation till the mid–1950s. It is because of the belief that if one of the critical tasks right after liberation is building a new country, the task obviously continues until after a war breaks out. In particular, in order to explore the liberation period in detail, it was divided into three periods, starting from the Joint Soviet–American Commission. It can be considered as a poetics designed to examine the rapidly changing political trends and transitions after liberation in a meticulous manner. The poets of the era intended to ask how a new country would be built through poetic imaginations about ‘foreign countries’ as foreigners. Their question is valid to this day, because the relations between each country and the identity of individual countries have become increasingly important in today's era of globalization. Since our government regime has remained almost the same after liberation and war period,exploring the national identity of the era is verifying the sources of current contradiction.