현대문학 : 북한문학의 민족주의적 성격 연구-민족해방서사의 주인공과 그 변모를 중심으로 = Study on the nationalistic features of North Korean Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper analyzes nationalistic character of North Korean literature. KimIlsung and the leading block of North Korea had the same ideological bias. And so did the North Korean literature. North Korean literature was fundamentally the narrative of national liberation. And the ‘great chief-leader(위대한 수령)’ has been always the hero of this narrative. But it is not the result of political pressure on literature, but the influence of nationalism which attracted many writers. I think Kim has been fundamentally nationalist. Because he grew up in Manchuria in which various military powers conflicted each other and many Koreans who had moved there were suffering from Japanese troop`s violence and differentiation of Chinese. These experiences led him and Koreans to nationalism. Their nationalism was based on the melo dramatic imagination which presupposes the struggle between the evil and the good. Of course here Japan was the evil, Korean was the innocent victim. But asymmetrical power relation between the imperial state and the colonized people prevents the latter from achieving liberation. It might have been overcome by whole mobilization of nation and concentrating their potent, and only the great hero made it possible. So the leader had to be a great hero so as to gather people`s energy and resentment to Imperialism. The narrative of national liberation was conceived in this idea of nationalism. National liberation came in 1945, and thereafter the narrative of national liberation was written actually. Cho Gichun wrote the epic <Baekdoosan(백두산)>, which describes the Kim`s attack on Bochunbo(보천보) where the Japanese police office was, depicted Kim as ‘great hero’. Kim was figured in this epic as a general of divine and his combat was described as a part of great war against the imperial Japan. And Cho gave Kim a image of popular messiah, e.g. Agi-jangsoo(아기장수) who descended into history from heaven but was killed by his parents because of king’ threat. Futhermore Cho exaggerated Kim as a great political leader who took care of his soldiers and taught them. This character of great hero is the result of obeying the ask from nationalism not from politics. But Kim devoured all these images which North Korean literatures gave him. And he was going to be a god-like-man. Nationalism made him great leader, but in the long run he enslaved his people. Eventually it might be said that nationalism and melo dramatic imagination have begotten such a tragedy.

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