이무영의 『향가』 연구

Abstract

Lee Mooyoung is recognized as a representative writer in Korean peasant novels. However, his works at the end of Japanese Imperialism were completely regarded as conformist literature. He was awarded the literature prize of Joseon government －general, claiming sound national life and stressing the Japanese mode of the people’s living. Such facts show that his works are different from the national literature as peasant novels. Since 1937, starting from the Sino－Japanese War to the Pacific War, imperialist Japan had concentrated all the systematic resources into conducting war, and had encouraged the farmers to produce more food for war supplies. For literary support, Japan imperialism had encouraged production literature. Lee Mooyoung’s works at this time period, had answered this purpose. He published the novels such as “Moon Seobang”, “Mother”, to demonstrate the importance of production to prosecute the wars, as Japanese people, showing the climax of that in his novel, “Hyang－Ga”. This work mainly deals with the education of Japanese, the volunteer system, based on cultivation of new farm land. This showed that imperialist Japan made propaganda for their colonial policies to exploit peasantry, by the name of farm village rehabilitation.