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Postwar globalism and nationalist literature Focusing on Lee, Chul-Bum's criticism

  • 인문논총
  • 2017, 44(), pp.163-186
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : October 31, 2017

KIM HYUN-JU 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis aims to establishing Chul-Bum Lee's universalism as a view of the world by surveying his logical argument about the universalism. 1950s was the times when the influences of western literature on Korean modern literature was greater than any other times and there was lively interactions between the Korean literature and the western literature. But the study on the cosmopolitanism of 1950s have been in the stages of abstract universalism, because the period was negatively evaluated as the ‘interregnal times’ which didn't connect the modern literature before the liberation with the contemporary after 1960s. Most of the studies around the concept of the cosmopolitanism have been overshadowed by the criticism that regards the times as the unconditional pursuit of the West which lost the sense of reality. Chul-Bum Lee set out a logical argument about the universalism that we have to take note not the universalism of the world culture but the existential life of the Third World people. His argument embraces from the Third World people to the alienated people in the system. Ultimately he advocated the alienated masses of the world. The life of the people cannot help being impoverished as the advance of science, the destroy of the war and the materialism of the capitalist ideolgy bring about the crises of the civilization. Therefore he emphasizes that it is urgent to search the ideology and common ideals to lead a new era for the sake of the symbiosis of humanity. Not staying at the theory, he testifies his argument with the practice of writing.

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