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A Study on Melodramatic features of Nam-gung, Man’s dramas in the period of directly after Korean Liberation

Kim, Hyang 1

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The purpose of this article is to research melodramatic aspects of Namgung, Man’s dramas in the period of directly after Liberation, which are Boksakot-pil-tae(when peach blossom bloom)(1946), Haeui-do(Haeui island)(1946), Jeju-do(Jeju island)(1947), Bombi(spring rain)(1947) and Hong, Kyoungrae(洪景來)(1947). In these dramas I could see melodramatic features on the basis of confused and apprehensive emotion, so I focused on them. Then I definitized characteristics of Namgung’s dramas which were reflected the confusion of the age aspects of melodramatic features. In so far advanced researchers discussed melodramatic features of liberation dramas lack of completeness. But we had to take notice of melodramatic dramaturgy of revolutionary period. That is to say, melodramatic features of the dramas were cultural phenomenon have been on the rise in the process of collapse of traditional order. So Soviet Union accommodated melodramatic dramaturgy to instigate peoples in the revolutionary period intentionally. Then I studied Namgung’s dramas in the aspects of excess emotion and actions of characters, love triangles, melodramatic moral, spectacle inflammation and discontinuous scenes on the basis of this argument. And I came to the conclusion as follows. Melodramatic features of Boksakot-pil-tae(when peach blossom bloom), Bombi(spring rain) and Haeui-do(Haeui island) were to embody emotional and physical struggling characters against a feudalism, the vestiges of the Japanese imperialism and an act of American violence in the flow of sociocultural anti-imperialism and semi-feudalism. And I thought that Namgung showed his political interpretation realizing inflammatory genocide of South Korea and land reform of North Korea in Haeui-do(Haeui island) and Jeju-do(Jeju island). He compared General Kim to Hong, kyoungrae whom realizing suddenly appearing unusual hero and good agitator as well as melodramatic hero. Eventually Namgung materialized farmers’ class liberation, postcolonial cognition and nominating general Kim as a new leader of North Korea with melodramatic strategy.

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