‘연안’으로 간 학병들 ; 학병세대와 코뮤니즘 - 신상초, 엄영식의 두 『탈출』에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This is a study for narratives of Student Soldier Generation especially of the student soldiers who escaped from Japanese troops to the territory of Chinese people’s army. The escaped student soldiers was incorporated to Korean Volunteer Army and the number of those soldiers was not smaller than the number of the Independence Army of Korea. They had fought the front of anti-Japanese armed struggle from 1944 to 1946. During these struggles, conflicts emerged between the liberal modernity of student soldier and the communism of Korean volunteer army. The student soldiers wanted to make a rational ‘Public Sphere’, but Korean volunteer army aimed to follow the international policy of communism. Both could not share the narratives to a political community. Therefore, the student soldiers carried out the second escape toward their homeland. Although the student soldier’s contribution on anti-Japanese armed struggle, they were confronted surveillance and imprisonment in North Korea and decided to defect from it. In the last period of Japanese imperialism, communism was the knowledge for Korean intellectuals. But the actualization of communism as a knowledge went against a rational modernity, it made a psychological conflict. After defecting from North Korea out of surveillance and hostility, The student soldiers of ‘Yun-An district’ performed the pivotal roles in South Korea. Also they contributed to build the united narratives of political community by asserting the political liberty at ‘Public Sphere’.