해방기 박인환 시의 인민 이미지 연구 = A Study on People’s Image in Park In-hwan’s Poetry during the Liberation Period

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

During the liberation period, Park's poetry reflected the perception of reality by non-Western subjects. The poems of this period incorporate a mental geography that spans across East Asia. At its center is the image of the people. The ‘people's image’ in Park's poems expresses an anti-imperialist and anti-feudalist stance. This is why we can read in Park's poetic project the will to derive a modern nation-state from the economic, social, and historical- political conditions. During the liberation period, Park In-hwan established a network with the small group of avant-garde poets of the ‘Joseon Literary Alliance’, and expressed support for the Hegelian leftist socialist beliefs of the Odden Group through Kim Ki-rim. Park anchors the coordinates of modern time and space in the catastrophe of the ‘postwar’ period. The imagined sense of community is manifested in Park's poetry from the liberation period as a criticality through the image of the people. The conversion was a life-historical event in which the people's project of self-determination was sealed off. The people's image, which exposes the deficiency of the community to come, shifts to the question of existential identity. This is why we can read the allegory of Korean literary history at the point where Park In-hwan's poetic project during the liberation period is distorted.