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A Study on the Correlation between Reinstatement of Kwangsoo Lee and Literary History

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2016, (9), pp.191-222
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

Kong Im Soon 1

1서강대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Although the attempt was frustrated, Munhyup(The Korean Writers Association) made some controversy by announcing the establishment of Choi Nam-son and Kwangsoo Lee Literary prize in 2016. Perhaps Kwangsoo Lee is one of the rare people with Kim Gu whose naming is problematic in the Korean society. Choi In-hun introduced Kwangsoo Lee in his works, Seo Yu Gi through the imagination and ideas of characters. Here he showed Kwangsoo Lee’ self-confessions and confessions that he had to write the sequel of Soil against the logic of military police of the Japanese Empire that Kwangsoo Lee personally embodied the life of Soil’ Heo Sung in the late colonial period. The questions and issues surrounding ‘Kwangsoo Lee-likeness’ in Chapter 1 mainly focus on these contents. Chapter 2 is explained what historical path and process led to Kwangsoo Lee’s reinstatement with kidnapping and being not returned from North Korea. In the global trend of Armistice Agreement(1953)-Geneva Conference(1954)-Notification and reply to the list of abductees through the International Red Cross(1956~1957), Kwangsoo Lee is a symbol of anti-communism and being not returned from North Korea was able to make a soft landing in Korean society. Strengthening the image of the writer based on the publication of ‘The Complete Works of Kwangsoo Lee’ from Samjungdang in 1962 led to the justification of the Kwangsoo Lee’s reinstatement. This is a temptation of chronicle according so-called literary history producing a dichotomy of literary accomplishments and political errors. New literary history corresponding to the 60th anniversary of new literature was nothing more than an inverted “originary present” to finally define the past and this also appeared as a reciprocal movement Kwangsoo Lee with Choi Nam-son that has been constantly turning to the origin and place of the first year. Therefore, the questions and issues of ‘Kwangsoo Lee-likeness’ including Kwangsoo Lee’s reinstatement is that it examines the history and politics of this self-obsession about the origins of literary history and needs to be self-reflection containing the post-modern horizons.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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