특집논문 : 해방기 진보의 개념과 감각 -지하련을 중심으로 = Notion and Sense of Progress During the Liberation Period －Focusing on Ji Ha-Ryun`s Case－

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper examines the notion and sense of progress during the liberation period by focusing on Ji Ha-Ryun`s case. Ji Ha-Ryun`s works are telling examples that portray the daily lives of seemingly progressive male characters before and after the liberation in terms of its consistency. In her short stories of the late colonial period, male characters who are characterized by their otherization of female character as pure and innocent tend to establish homosocial solidarity between them based on their mutual respect as well as jealousy. However, Ji Ha-Ryun demystifies the homosociality between the two men through revealing the fact that this solidarity, which is necessarily accompanied by mutual distrust and suspicion, is an inevitable consequence of our tragic history. She also deconstructs the hidden structure of male fantasy on naive and cheerful sister. In this sense, this paper aims to reexamine Ji Ha-Ryun`s representative text Dojung. Interestingly enough, Seok-jae, the hero of Dojung, decides to join the Communist Party ``once again`` after the liberation. For him, it is the ``second`` chance to devote himself to Communism because he ``was`` a socialist during the colonial period. However, Seok-jae is described as timid and weak person who just repeats the same repertoire of self-criticising. In short, Ji Ha-Ryun`s works, depicting various aspects of ``impersonated progress`` instead of dealing with ``conceptualized progress``, shed a new light on the issue of performative progress based on the democratic sense in everyday lives.