만주 동포 귀환기: <일오전쟁회고가> 연구

Abstract

The <Recollection of Iro War> is a gasa product written with the story of the return of a compatriot who used to live in Manchuria, after the national liberation of Korea. The writer left Northern Manchuria in late Dec., 1945 and arrived in Bonghwa, the hometown, in the middle of Feb., 1946. The product was written in 1946. The writer lived near Harbin. The hometown of the writer is Naeseong-ri, Bonghwa-eup, Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. It is estimated that the writer was in an old age, and it is not known whether the writer is a man or a woman. This gasa product is rather short with 286 verses in total. The world in the product was described in the order of the first border, the second border and the third border. The first border means a place near Singyeong which is located halfway between Harbin and Bongcheon. The first border was made during the early stage of the Chinese domestic warfare between Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang (National Party). The company of the writer stayed here for about one month. The second border was the one that divided Andong of China and Sineuiju of Korea. They crossed the border using a boat. The third border means the 38th parallel. They came over the border on foot at night. The <Recollection of Iro War> contained the suffering history of the Korean compatriots who had lived in Manchuria while they returned to their homeland after the liberation of Korea. The product has sufficient significance in the literary history of gasa in that it expressed the history of the people in the space after liberation with 'reality' and 'description'. Also, in its recognition of reality, this product has the ambivalence of reflecting the 'present age' and being pulled by 'feudalism' at the same time. The <Recollection of Iro War> shows the pattern of the contact of the modern age and feudalism in an extreme way.