본문 바로가기
  • Home

A Bibliographic Study of Literary Works during Liberation Space in the Korean Collection of the University of Washington Libraries

김종천 1

1상명대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study configurated the following facts by analyzing bibliographic characteristics of the Korean literary works during the time of Liberation Space in the collection of the University of Washington Libraries. (1) The University of Washington Libraries have 60 rare Korean literary works published during the time of Liberation Space. (2) This collection of Korean literary works published during the Liberation Space was formed with the donation from the late S. E. Solberg, an American scholar of Korean literature and Namgung Yoseol, a Korean- American photographer. Solberg donated 16 books and Namgung donated 8 books. (3) These books can be classified into 28 poems, 23 novels, 4 readers, 2 travel essays, 2 children's literature, and 1 literary history. It is notable that especially in the early period of the Liberation Space, many poems were published to express the delight of liberation. (4) Out of those 60 books, the authors of 25 books could be considered the leftists. It seems that during this period, the authors actively wrote without any ideological limitation. (5) Out of 60 books, the illustrators of book covers for 30 books could be identified. Jeong Hyon-ung illustrated the book covers for 6 books, while Kim Yong-jun and Bae Jeong-guk illustrated the covers fo 3 books, respectively, and Gil Jin-seop, Park Mun-won and Yi Sang-beom illustrated the covers for 2 books, respectively.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.