이성홍의 소년문예활동과 작품세계 연구 -『신소년』을 중심으로-

Abstract

By analyzing Lee Seong-hong’s activities from Hapcheon, who began to make his name in the reader’s paragraph of the modern children’s magazine Shinsonyeon(新少年) and grew up as a young writer, in conjunction with the current trend of the youth literary movement, we tried to reveal the meaning and world of Lee Seong-hong’s activities in the history of modern children’s literature in Korea. His activities were more active than I first thought of finding the forgotten artist’s name, and the world of his work was also deeply with the changes in the formation period of modern children’s literature. Lee Seong-hong was a writer who worked as a member of ‘the Joseon Boys’ Literature Association’(조선소년문예협회) as a Member of ‘joyance’(기쁨사), a representative juvenile literary organization. He was at the center of ‘the Hapcheon Boys’ Association ‘(합천소년회) and Hapcheon Boys’ Alliance and was a central figure of Moonlight group(달빛사), a literary organization that published the literary magazine Moonlight(달빛) in the region. Lee Seong-hong was the author who showed the change in literary activities while growing up from a colonial boy to a young man. Lee Seong-hong’s class anger and raw cries, which established him as a mid-level writer through children’s songs and children’s poems in 1930, were refined in 1931 in a way that dealt with the sorrow and resentment of the nation. Lee Seong-hong’s change may have been possible because he worked with colonial literary artists through the activities of the Hapcheon Boys’ Association and the Hapcheon Boys’ League, or as a member of the Joseon Boys’ Literature Society and a member of Moonbitsa. The reason he was able to reveal his own inclinations through repeated changes was because he had a background in which he could grow by communicating with the writers of his time and sharing the conflicts of adolescence, the agony of colonial youth, and class consciousness. This is why author Seonghong Lee’s name must be properly established in the literary discourse of the formative period of modern children’s literature.