리북명의 노동문학과 프로파간다의 담론– 「출근정지」와 『로동일가」를 중심으로 –

Abstract

This study analyzes the propaganda strategies in Lee Buk-myoung’s novels, “Suspension from Work”(「출근정지」 1937), “Labor Family”(「로동일가」 1947) through the cross relations with the political discourse related to the text and situation and medium at that times. Both novels represented contemporary work place and its problems, such as poverty, exploitation, class conflicts, race so on. However, the strategies in these novels are totally different. “Suspension from Work” described the daily problems of the labor and food for the surplus labor of the capitalist exploitation of workers in the 1930s, Japanese Colonial Era. The novel captured the colonial 1930s and delved into the totality of labor in Korea to understand in detail the precise human problems. This work, thus, aimed to explore the hostile relations between the subject and the subordinate as revealed in the structure of “Suspension from Work.” “Labor Family” is created on the foundation of the dogma political socialism of the Economic Development in North Korea from 1945 to 1950. The propaganda strategies of “Labor Family” showed the exaggerated and excessive exaltation of the system of North Korea and Kim Il-sung. In conclusion, the intended strategy is showing the distance between text and reality. Thus, the propaganda strategy of which Lee Buk-myoung made use has to be failed.