윤림호 소설 연구

최병우(Choi, Byeong-woo) 국어국문학회 2017 국어국문학 Vol.0 No.178

본고는 윤림호의 소설을 창작 시기 별로 작품의 경향을 정리하고, 그러한 경향성을 띠게 된 요인을 검토하여 그 전체적 모습을 해명하고자 하였다. 윤림호의 소설은 공동체적 삶을 지향하여 개혁개방과 한중수교 등으로 경제적으로 윤택해지면서 돈때문에 윤리가 사라진 현실을 비판하고 있다. 그리고 한중 교류로 한국을 통해 부를 획득하였지만 한국과의 접촉으로 그들이 태어난 중국 땅이 고향이라는 의식을 강화하는 모습을 보여준다. 윤림호 소설은 급변하는 조선족의 현실을 올바로 형상화하고 새로운 시대에 필요한 가치관을 제시하지 못했다는 점에서 한계를 드러낸다. 또 1990년대 중반 이후 환상적인 세계와 야생성의 세계에 과도하게 몰입함으로써 소설적 리얼리티를 상실하고, 필요 이상의 사건을 나열하여 주제가 산만해진 점도 문제로 지적할 수 있다. 윤림호 작품에 나타난 이러한 한계는 작가가 시대 변화를 해석하는 능력이 부족하여 새로운 시대가 나아가야 할 방향에 대해 소설적 대안을 마련하지 못한 결과일 것이다. This study attempted to summarize Yoon, Lim-ho"s novel on the theme and tendency of the work by the time of writing, to examine the factors that led to such tendency and to clarify the whole picture. Yoon, Lim-ho"s novel criticizes the fact that ethics has disappeared due to money, although it has been financially supported by the reform and opening and the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and China. And although Joseonjok acquired wealth through Korea with the Korea‐China exchange, they show the contact with Korea strengthens the perception that the hometown of their birthplace is China. Yoon, Lim-ho"s novel is limited in that it cannot properly represent the reality of the rapidly changing Joseonjok and present the necessary values for a new age. It is also pointed out that the topic has been distracted by the loss of novelistic reality by hanging in the fantasy world and wildness since the middle of 1990s, and by listing events beyond necessity. These limitations in Yoon, Lim-ho"s works are the result of the artist"s inability to interpret the changes of the times and fail to provide novel alternatives for the direction of the new age.

이념의 차이와 역사 제재 선택에 관한 연구

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2007 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.34

In writing a novel, historical materials are chosen by the writer`s ideology. The present study examined how a writer`s idea and the country`s ideology affect the writer`s choice of materials from historical facts through Ahn Su-gil`s Bukgando and Lee Geun-jeon`s Gonaneui Nyeondae. The former mainly deals with incidents involving nationalists waging anti Japanese movements in Manchuria during the rule of Japanese imperialism, and the latter deals with incidents led by the Chinese Communist Party. These show that the novelists chose materials out of the history of anti Japanese struggles in the Manchurian region according to their own idea as well as their country`s ideology. For this reason, neither of the two works covers incidents involving Korean socialists in anti Japanese struggles in the Manchurian region. This is because they reinterpreted the history of anti Japanese struggles in the area by their own view. In this sense, both Bukgando and Gonaneui Nyeondae are considered to show consistency in using historical facts in Manchuria selectively as the materials of the stories according to the writers` ideology.

조선족 소설에 나타난 민족의 문제

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2009 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.42

Choseonjok came over to Korea, their brethren country, with their own traditions and culture. Contacting Korean people and culture, however, they found themselves far different from Koreans who they had believed to be similar to them and became skeptical of their identity. As they experienced Korea frequently and contacted Korean people with sufficient information on Korea, they came to admit difference between Korean people and themselves and confirmed their national identity as Chinese citizens. Koreans also began to understand Choseonjok objectively and treat them within institutional framework. Choseonjok built their network in Korea, identified and objectified their cultural characteristics that distinguished them from Koreans, and established the identity of Choseonjok as a minority in China by viewing their relation with Chinese objectively. Choseonjok are the descendents of Koreans who left the Korean Peninsula for economic or political reasons. The Korean refugees waged fights for independence in Manchu, and made brilliant contributions to the foundation of China. Their glorious history is the reason why they expect to be treated honorably in China and Korea. However, the reality is different. Choseonjok is nothing but a minority living in the northeastern border area in China, and a long-forgotten brother who came home in quite a different look and is making nuisances in Korea. Choseonjok should look at this situation cool-headly and establish a new identity.

한국현대소설에 나타난 두만강의 형상과 그 함의

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2008 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.39

해방직후 한국소설에 나타난 귀환과 정주의 선택과 그 의미

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2011 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.46

The objective of this study was to explain factors related to the choice of Koreans in the Manchurian area between repatriation and settlement and to discuss the meaning of their repatriation and settlement using Korean novels depicting the repatriation of Koreans from Manchuria. After Japan was defeated, Koreans in the Manchurian area were faced with the situation that they had to choose between permanent settlement in the foreign land or repatriation to their home country. As Japanese who had protected them disappeared, many of them chose to move to a city or return to Korea in order to escape from Manchurians` terrifying violence. However, some hesitated in returning home due to economic reasons or the land allotment suggested by the Communist Party lured them into a decision to settle in the land. In this way, the factors motivating Koreans in Manchuria to choose repatriation or settlement were quite personal, and therefore, it is not easy to explain it just with one or two reasons. In consideration of the difficulty, this study reviewed Korean repatriate novels and identified largely three factors influencing Koreans in the Manchurian area in their choice between repatriation and settlement just after the liberation. They were several economic issues, the condition of security in their residential area after the fall of Japan, and the sense of distance from the home resulting from their long stay in Manchuria.

리근전 소설 연구

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2006 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.29

해방 후 귀환소설에 나타난 만주 체험과 그 의미

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2011 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.48

Life in Manchuria described in repatriate novels is largely divided into two types. One is a somewhat stable life of those who became a reporter or an official, and the other is a toilsome life of those who went over to Manchuria to escape poverty but could not take off the bridle of poverty in the land. In general, people belonging to the former group went to Manchuria after the foundation of Manchukuo for better future and maintained their official position. On the contrary, those belonging to the latter group were divided again into those who returned home after the liberation out of their yearning for their hometown and those who settled in Manchuria because their future in their hometown was uncertain as they did not have farmlands. These differences appearing in repatriate novels demonstrate clearly the importance of actual experiences that the writers have. Novelists who acted in the Peninsula did not understand how the home was perceived by Korean people in Manchuria, and thus to them it seemed natural for Koreans in Manchuria to return home on the liberation. As the real life was not as they expected, however, many Korean people in Manchuria tried to decide between repatriation and settlement depending on situation, with preparing some amount of money by selling their properties or food. While they were hesitating, the Korean Peninsula was divided and they became Chinese citizens. As a result, they lost the method of and reason for repatriation and could not help settling in Manchuria.

조선족 소설과 문화대혁명의 기억

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2013 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.54

The Cultural Revolution (CR) in the Korean Chinese society had some particularities while showing similar aspects to those of the CRunfolding over entire China. They included prosecution due to the gap between the Chinese Communist Party`s ideology and the reality of the minor ethnicity, and the conflicts with the Han Chinese due to the conflict between South and North Korea at the time of the Cultural Revolution. After the CR, a considerable number of Korean-Chinese novels have addressed it from various angles. This paper tries to clarify the aspects and meanings of some Korean-Chinese novels that have the CR as their subject matters by classifying them into five types including those addressing the hardship undergone in the course of the abnormal Cultural Revolution, those repenting the assentation to the CR situations of mutual criticisms and rebukes, those criticizing the fallacies in the national policies in the period of the Cultural Revolution oriented toward socialism, those accusing the particularities of the CR in Yenbien, and those missing the period of the Cultural Revolution in the past or dealing only with subject matters that just strengthen the theme of the CR. Though the CR was an event that made the Chinese have a very greattrauma, there have not been many Korean-Chinese novels that deal directly with it. We can conjecture some of the reasons. First of all, the time interval is still too short for novels to address the CR as their main subject matter since it left too tremendous hurts. Furthermore, it is also an important factor that it is difficult to deal with the CR as a narrative event since the perpetrators and the victims are not clearly distinguished. It is also a crucial reason that the reform and opening-up after the CR gave rise to radical social and economic changes, and the establishment of the significance of the CR was put aside due to the overwhelming historical event for the Korean-Chinese, the establishment of the diplomatic ties between Korea and China.

한국현대소설에 나타난 이주의 인간학

최병우(Byeong Woo Choi) 한국현대소설학회 2012 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.51

The purpose of this study is to explore how Korean modern novels respond to immigration and multi?culture issues that recently became topics for Korean society. In Korean society, there are around 1.2 to 1.3 million immigrants living in Korea for immigration labor, marriage immigration, etc., and over 20,000 North Korean defectors residing in Korea. They experience discrimination in Korean society, suffer from heterogeneous cultures. Passing the new millennium, Korean modern novels set out to pay attention to the issues of immigrants and give shape to them in a way of literature. This study divided Korean modern novels covering the issues of immigrants into genres of novels which carried on the lives of immigrants suffering from human suppression, novels describing Korean?Chinese with discrimination of double identity of a Chinese and a Korean, novels fictionalizing women marriage immigrants who endeavored to take root to Korean society under suppression and estrangement, and North Korean defectors who strained for being a new citizen with indifference and estrangement respectively in accordance with the characteristics of immigrants, and examined their aspects and limits, and meanings respectively. Through the discussion, the issues and meanings of immigrant novels appearing in Korean modern novels are summarized as the following three. Firstly, it is necessary to make efforts to explicate the meanings the novels have in a viewpoint of humanics with concerns of various issues for immigrants. Secondly, on a certain basis it is needed to have rumination of biases like dichotomous antagonism that those novels with materials of immigrants have. Thirdly, through understanding of the lives and inner worlds of immigrants in a sense of humanics, it is necessary to try to see the insights of them.

탈북이주민에 관한 소설적 대응 양상

최병우(Choi, Byeong-Woo) 한국현대소설학회 2016 현대소설연구 Vol.- No.61

Novels dealing with North Korean immigrants started appearing on the South Korean literary scene in the mid-1990s when defections from the North began in earnest. With the publication of “Heavy Life” by Kim Ji-soo, South Korean writers have written books about the life of people in the North, their escape across the border, illegal stay in China, and arrival and adjustment to the country of their final destination. To date, several short stories, book-length novels, and serialized novels about North Korean immigrants have been published, and literary critics and academics have taken an interest in this issue and have undertaken a sizable amount of research about it. This paper studies three serialized novels and thirteen book-length novels and examines their portrayal of the lives of North Korean immigrants. Novels dealing with the theme of North Korean immigrants portray the hardships they face in their journey from the North to their final destination through China, and the problems they experience in adjusting to their new home. I study sixteen works and sort their portrayal of North Korean immigrants into different phases, such as life in North Korea, life in China, the border crossing, and life in their new home, and then analyze which phase each work concentrates on. Finally, I suggest a way ahead for novels dealing with the issue of North Korean immigrants.