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March First Movement and time in prison -Relationship between self and politics in 1920s fiction

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2019, (16), pp.77-109
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2019.12.16.77
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : November 15, 2019
  • Accepted : December 10, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

Lee Haeng-mi 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article starts from the premise that the political upheaval of the March First Movement and the question of self, which was one of the core themes of literature in the 1920s, are closely related. In the harsh colonial reality, the fiction embodying the March First Movement is difficult to directly reveal the political nature of the movement, and the meaning of the historical event is largely expressed through the personal narrative. However, it is difficult to conclude that such personal narrative lies on the opposite axis of the resistance of the movement. It is necessary to explain from various angles what the March First Movement, which shows the scenes of where life and death intersect, remains to the individual and how the ‘self’ discovered through this movement is related to the history of the movement. In this respect, a series of fictions dealing with imprisonment require particular attention. This is because it contains the criticism of the violence of colonial power and the meaning of the March First Movement in a situation where it is difficult to directly express the scene of the March First Movement. The March first Movement is a movement that resisted violent domination and repression and increased the value of nonviolence and freedom on the contrary. The fiction, which deals with the imprisonment related to the March First Movement, attempts to indirectly criticize the reality by embodying the problem of death, the maximum of violence. These fictions are narratives that solidify our will for life and life in the face of death or criticize the reality of prisons where the self, which is the basis of individual life, is difficult to survive. In this sense, this narrative has a political character. In the early 1920s, interest in the self was parallel to the desire for new literature. The self was regarded as both a condition and a power to create art through mediating reality. However, it is a one-sided interpretation to understand this interest in self only as an advocate for the autonomy of literature separate from political reality and society. This is closely related to the artist's sincere concern for creating a literary work of the stories of the individual self who felt pain and sorrow through the March First Movement. In the 1920s, in-depth questioning and exploration of self, and literary act as a product, is a process of remembering the March First Movement and imposing its meaning on the individual.

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