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A Study on Sensation of Yeom Sang Seop During the Period of Liberation

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2017, 32(), pp.293~319
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2017.32..293
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Published : December 31, 2017

Park subin 1

1고려대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In this article, I will examine how Yeom Sang Yeop perceived and signified this period through his short story. Before liberation, for ten years, he stopped writing as a writer, and during this time, he encountered liberation. As a writer and as an individual who underwent the colonial period, who was a realist who always wrote pieces inquiring into chronological problems of liberation period, it was a serious and a crucial moment for him. He depicted the meaning of national liberation through narration of paternal recovery. After liberation, he focused on the changed status of Joseon people and depicted the people who were placed in a situation where they had to choose their own ethnic identity. In the process of recovering from the past of colonization, he intactly depicted the chaos of liberation in his perspective. There is a twofold narration about Japan and Japanese people in his work. Japan (Japanese people) is ethnically the target of revenge in Joseon; however, in the sense of establishing the identity of Joseon people, they stanchly performed a role as a mirror. Since his story is meaningful in authentically emphasizing individuals, when signifying liberation, he focuses on the authority and detailed emotions that individuals acquire, which is the development of emotions and behaviors. Rather than to concentrate on ethnical⦁political signification, he focuses on the essential problems of people. In particular, if you look at his series, 「ihap」(1948)-「jaesaeng」(1948) even after liberation, everything is decided based on the different ideologies and logic behind politics, meaning that the situation between North and South are virtually the same as it was before liberation. So, aside from ideology, it comes to the conclusion that we all are victims in this historical reality. Yeom Sang Seop, as a writer who looks at this period by putting the problems of life in front, focused to realistically depict how people found themselves by encountering intense social chaos during liberation. In this process, ideology was put aside; however, the aspects of these people fully show realistic narrative attitude as well as the sensation of the marginal man, Yeom Sang Seop.

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