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The Position of Park Jong-hwa and Kim Dong-ni, “the Descendants of anti-trusteeship(bantak: 反託) movement” and Right-wing literary field in Korea

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2016, (121), pp.41-79
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Kong Im Soon 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

The first serious slip of the pen(pilhwa: 筆禍) event occurred immediately after 5·16 Military Coup. It’s target was the Bak Gye-ju’s novel “Yeosu(旅愁)” that serialized in the Dong-A Ilbo. The scene in question was support of trusteeship(chantak: 贊託) and the review of patriot figure represented Rhee Syng-man. But issues raised by the Bak gye-ju due to revolutionary mood in the April 19 sank beneath the surface again being dealt a severe blow by May 16th Military Regime. This case showed an internal injury that has been deeply rooted in Korea. It was trusteeship(takchi: 託治) and patriotic debates in 1946 that had been sweeping collective passions and movement, this paper seeks to reveal that self-identification of right-wing literary field in Korea has been made in the middle of trusteeship(takchi: 託治) and patriotic debates in 1946. From this perspective, this paper proposes the concept of “the descendants of anti-trusteeship movement” aided to “the descendants of March First Movement” of Jung Byung-joon. “The descendants of anti-trusteeship movement” is a term that should be noted in particular with regard to the origin of right-wing literary field in Korea. Because “the descendants of anti-trusteeship movement” beyond the “the descendants of March First Movement” began to reconstruct language and logic in literary circles in opposition to left-wing literary field in Korea. The Meaning of Park Jong-hwa’s ‘Nation’ discourse and Kim Dong-ni’s ‘pure’ discourse were also moving in this context. While this paper is trying to study that Kim Dong-ni, a true “the descendants of anti-trusteeship movement”, was continually rewriting his ‘pure’ discourse in addition to lead Park Jong-hwa’s ‘Nation’ discourse, also reexamines reflectively that the history of right-wing literary field in Korea has been still living through literature system and the media and current education system with the desire of history of literature and composing canon.

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