@article{ART002847028},
author={Choi Eunhye},
title={Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2022},
number={85},
pages={43-83},
doi={10.31310/HUM.085.02}
TY - JOUR
AU - Choi Eunhye
TI - Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 85
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 43
EP - 83
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This study aims to examine the reproduction of the Lumpenproletariat entailed in the socialist literature and its political significance with much focus on the period from the mid-1920s when socialist literature emerged to the mid-1930s when it declined. The socialist literature in colonized Joseon deemed the Lumpen intelligentsia not only as an object to be actively reproduced but also as a driving force of social change, getting away from the orthodox Marxist perspective of regarding it as an economically and politically useless group. The aspect of reproduction had no choice but to vary in each period. The works of the 1920s narrated the lives of the urban poor and emphasized that such phenomena were derived from social structural problems. On the other hand, the works produced in the 1930s disclosed the depressing life of many unemployed persons and Lumpen intelligentsia whose number had increased since the Great Depression and actively employed the subjectification strategy to overcome those situations. In the meantime, as we can see through the writings by Kim Ki-jin as well as the novels by Cho Myeong-hee and Yoo Jin-oh, the active reproduction of the Lumpenproletariat was made from the underdeveloped locality that mass-produces them and the colonial situation under which capitalism was driven by imperialism. In short, the political epic of the Lumpenproletariat was linked to the colonial conditions.
KW - Lumpenproletariat;colonial socialism;peripheral socialism;Proletariat
DO - 10.31310/HUM.085.02
ER -
Choi Eunhye. (2022). Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -. Journal of Humanities, 85, 43-83.
Choi Eunhye. 2022, "Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -", Journal of Humanities, no.85, pp.43-83. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye "Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -" Journal of Humanities 85 pp.43-83 (2022) : 43.
Choi Eunhye. Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -. 2022; 85 : 43-83. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye. "Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -" Journal of Humanities no.85(2022) : 43-83.doi: 10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye. Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -. Journal of Humanities, 85, 43-83. doi: 10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye. Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -. Journal of Humanities. 2022; 85 43-83. doi: 10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye. Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -. 2022; 85 : 43-83. Available from: doi:10.31310/HUM.085.02
Choi Eunhye. "Literary Configuration of the Lumpenproletariat and its Political Significance - Focusing on Socialist Literature between the 1920s and the 1930s -" Journal of Humanities no.85(2022) : 43-83.doi: 10.31310/HUM.085.02
