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A Study on the Reaction to ‘Americanization’ in the literature of Yeom Sang-sup: Focusing on novels after liberation

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2017, (10), pp.299-320
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

Jun Hoonjee 1

1고려대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Recently, research on the post-liberation literature of Yeom Sang-sup is going on quite actively. However, research on works after 1950s is still insufficient. This article analyzes the acceptance of Americanization in the literature of Yeom Sang-sup as part of finding the continuity of Yeom Sang-sup’s literature of colonial period and post-liberation. It is not hard to find a poetic scene in his novel because he was a writer and a reporter. The America or American, seen in the works published in the colonial period or in the post-liberation works, can be guessed that the close relationship between Korea and the United States has been going on for quite some time. After liberation, acceptance of Americanization emerged in the literature of Yeom Sang-sup criticizes the profiteer who take personal advantage as they are shaped negatively. In addition, the acceptance of Americanization appears to have been rejected by Americans and Americans. This rejection has been around for quite some time. It can be seen that the acceptance of Americanization is accompanied by a moral appraisal, which is a unique creation method by Yeom Sang-sup who looks inside the contemporary society that expressed the 'American Dream'.

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